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The changes are among the first of many that weather service managers say they are likely to make as they prepare for an era of “degraded operations” under the current administration.

Ancient dire wolf DNA - extracted from fossilised remains - is too degraded and damaged to biologically copy - or clone.

Environmental groups say they are sympathetic to these concerns, but that it is the duty of the National Park Service to protect and preserve the land — and that the land is being degraded.

“I wanted a field that felt like it had been degraded by time with old wood, chipped paint and a sense of history,” he says.

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.