What's the oldest plausible frozen specimen for a Jurassic Park style story-line?
We've found all sorts of interesting stuff in arctic ice & permafrost around the world.
Bacteria & the like far older than the more media friendly mammoth specimens have been found, living bacteria has been found in ice cores as old as 420,000 years.
Obviously I'm not thinking about living specimens.
The ebb & flow of the ice & permafrost through our various ice ages are probably a factor in what might plausibly have survived unthawed to be found & by extension where (not all dinosaurs lived exclusively in warm climates) & when any particular species was found.
So is a frozen dinosaur in any way plausible, how about a neanderthal?
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