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All right, well, let's jump back into this last one here about the DNA that scientists have been able to extract from a $50,000 to 50,000 year old tooth that belonged to an African antelope. And that's actually set a record from Sub-Saharan Africa. It wasn't a record per se, historical record, but it was from this particular area of Sub-Saharan Africa. And this indicates that DNA preservation in Sub-Saharan Africa is feasible for many thousands of years most of the time. The region's hot climate breaks down a molecule and stops it and you know, full data. So that means too once the molecule breaks down, it's pretty hard to look at the DNA at that point and try and trace the evolutionary pattern of whatever animals may be trying to look at. And there's some scientists out there now that are trying to use this DNA to bring back some extinct animals, William Adams, William Wright-Authorist, things like that.