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Asked by shabbatronic1999 to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 19 Mar 2012.
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Suzanne McEndoo answered on 19 Mar 2012:
I think, sadly, it’s unlikely. The science behind jurassic park makes a lot of unrealistic assumptions so while in theory, if you got the dna (unlikely) and if it was still good enough (unlikely), etc, etc, you could make dinosaurs, but there are too many ifs.
Also, the planet has changed a lot since the dinosaurs. There’s about half the oxygen in the atmosphere now, so there might not be enough for the large dinosaurs to breathe.
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Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 20 Mar 2012:
Sadly the science behind Jurassic park just doesn’t hold true. The problem is that DNA just isn’t so stable outside a cell. It would be very difficult to keep it intact for millions of years, even if it were in a mosquito’s stomach. In fact the big problem there is that it would be digested. Anyway I can’t see it happening unless we have some kind of time machine to go and grab them, though that in itself would have some major problems.
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Robert Thompson answered on 21 Mar 2012:
Marcus is the Biologist so I’ll got with his answer, It’s upsetting though, I guess I’ll just have to go walking round the natural history museum dinosaur exhibit (Which is awesome!!)
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Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 23 Mar 2012:
I think it’s theoretically possible, if there were a way to work out what the DNA would have been. I guess that’s very, very very hard, but maybe in 1,000 years?
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09kravenhill commented on :
ive seen a programme on tv that says something like you can undo the evolution and create dinosaurs 🙂
Suzanne commented on :
Really? That would be very interesting. Would they start with something like birds that evolved from the dinosaurs and work backwards then? It sounds (to my non-geneticist ears) like an interesting idea. Probably easier than searching for mosquitos in amber.