The UFO specimen, he assured, were recently studied at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), where scientists were able to draw DNA evidence using radiocarbon dating.

That’s… not how neither DNA evidence or radiocarbon dating is done…

And I’m pretty sure you can’t get fossilised in a diatom “mine” in only 1000 years.

Yes, that article seems absolutely legit. Not at all as if someone who has absolutely no clue wrote it /s