Will We Clone a Dinosaur?
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February 6th, 2009
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If you use DNA taken from its myriad wing descendants, the idea is not as farfetched as it first appears
By MATT RIDLEY
The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is definitely not. The Jurassic Park idea amber, insects and bits of frog dna would not work in a million years, and it was by far the most ingenious suggestion yet made for how to find dinosaur genes. Cloning a mammoth-flash frozen for several thousand years might just prove feasible one day. But dinosaurs, 65 million years old? No way.
It is only when you ask the question the third time that you begin to see a glimpse of an affirmative answer. Start with three premises. First, dinosaurs did not die out; indeed there are roughly twice as many species of their descendants still here on Earth as there are mammals, but we call them birds. Second, dna is turning out to be a great deal more “conserved” than anybody ever imagined. So-called Hox genes that lay down the body plan in an embryo are so similar in people and fruit flies that they can be used interchangeably, yet the last common ancestor of people and fruit flies lived about 600 million years ago. [more]
I think far down the line in the future it will be possible to clone dinosaur like imitations. Will it happen no. As the understanding of human genetics and molecular biology increases, it would be possible to take the limited dna from amber or wherever and sequence it and replace missing essential dna from related species such as birds. It would take ton of sequencing and understanding of gene function. so possible yes, probable, no.
They can but cant because where will they put a humogous meat/non meat eating gaint
i disagree it’s not impossible it’s just highly improbable.
just because we can’t clone them now doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do so.