Can the dinosaurs come back?

DNA breaks down over time. The dinosaurs went extinct around 66 million years ago and with so much time having passed it is very unlikely that any dinosaur DNA would remain today. While dinosaur bones can survive for millions of years, dinosaur DNA almost certainly does not.
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Will dinosaurs be back in 2050?

The answer is YES. In fact they will return to the face of the earth in 2050. We found a pregnant T. rex fossil and had DNA in it this is rare and this helps scientists take a step closer of animal cloning a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs.
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Can they bring dinosaurs back to life?

"We are a long, long way from being able to reconstruct the DNA of extinct creatures, and in fact it may be impossible to resurrect the DNA of dinosaurs or other long-extinct forms. We have DNA for living creatures, including ourselves, and yet we cannot clone any living animal (from DNA alone).
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Will dinosaurs come back in 2025?

According to the scientist who inspired Jurassic Park Alan Grant, the window for the return of dinosaurs is sometime between now and 2025. Putting it mildly, the world has gone pretty crazy so far this year.
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Are dinosaur still alive today?

Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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What if dinosaurs were still alive?

We wouldn't have recognized them

They, too, would have continued to adapt. “There might even be new groups of dinosaurs that didn't exist during the Mesozoic era. The present Earth wouldn't be a hodgepodge of old favorites, but an entirely different mix of unknown dinosaurs,” wrote Switek.
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Does dinosaur DNA exist?

Oct 26, 2021. A team has extracted what could be DNA molecules from a 125-million-year-old fossil dinosaur, according to a study published last month (September 24) in Communications Biology. But other experts have voiced caution or outright skepticism about the findings.
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Is Jurassic Park possible?

The possibility of a Jurassic Park-like recreation is far from possible, says a paleontologist. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have been fascinated by the world created in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and others who are petrified by the sheer possibility of it.
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What animals Can we bring back from extinction?

Here's our list of 14 extinct animals considered for de-extinction through cloning.
  • of 14. Woolly Mammoth. Mauricio Antón / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5. ...
  • of 14. Tasmanian Tiger. ...
  • of 14. Pyrenean Ibex. ...
  • of 14. Saber-Toothed Cats. ...
  • of 14. Moa. ...
  • of 14. Dodo. ...
  • of 14. Ground Sloth. ...
  • of 14. Carolina Parakeet.
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Could at Rex survive today?

It's doubtful. Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Triceratops for example, lived in the Cretaceous Period 145-66 million years ago (whatever Jurassic Park would have you believe).
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Can we create dinosaurs?

Dig up a fossil today, and any dino-DNA within would have long since fallen apart. That means, as far as scientists know, and even using the best technology available today, it's not possible to make a dinosaur from its DNA.
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Can a dinosaur be cloned?

While dinosaur bones can survive for millions of years, dinosaur DNA almost certainly does not. But some scientists continue to search for it - just in case. So it looks like cloning a dinosaur is off the table, but an alternate way to recreate the extinct animals would be to reverse-engineer one.
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What are scientist trying to bring back?

Scientists in several countries are engaged in dedicated projects to bring extinct animals back from the dead — from the thylacine to the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon to the gastric-brooding frog.
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Has any extinct animal been cloned?

A cloned Pyrenean ibex was born on July 30, 2003, in Spain, but died several minutes later due to physical defects in the lungs. This was the first, and so far only, extinct animal to be cloned.
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Do we have dodo DNA?

Mind you, all this is just speculation from a few facts–the fact that we now have a little dodo DNA and that scientists are doing amazing research on cloning based on stem cell engineering. Lots of practical obstacles stand in the way, some of which might simply be insurmountable.
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How many dinosaurs are there 2021?

In 2016, the estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic was 1,543–2,468. In 2021, the number of modern-day birds (avian dinosaurs) was estimated to be at 10,806 species. Some are herbivorous, others carnivorous, including seed-eaters, fish-eaters, insectivores, and omnivores.
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What animal is closest to dinosaur?

It is correct to say that birds are the closest living relatives to all EXTINCT dinosaurs. The closest living relatives of ALL dinosaurs are the crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators, gharials).
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Is there a real Jurassic world?

It is mentioned that the island that Jurassic Park is built on is called "Isla Nublar" near Costa Rica. Although a real island in Costa Rica was used for the establishing shot, Isla Nublar was fictitious.
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Is it possible to find a frozen dinosaur?

In the icy badlands of Alberta, paleontologists have found a “frozen dragon”: a new genus of pterosaur that once soared over the heads of dinosaurs with a wingspan that stretched at least 16 feet.
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Would a T. rex eat a human?

T. rex surely would have been able to eat people. There are fossil bite marks, matching the teeth of T. rex, on the bones of Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs such as Edmontosaurus, which were both over 50 times heavier than an average person.
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How long ago did dinosaurs live?

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.
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Will humans go extinct?

The scientific consensus is that there is a relatively low risk of near-term human extinction due to natural causes. The likelihood of human extinction through its own activities, however, is a current area of research and debate.
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How did Sharks survive the dinosaur extinction?

The finding published in the journal PLOS Biology also suggested that some shark species were in decline before the asteroid hit but began to thrive after it due to their ability to repair DNA damage.
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Which came first dinosaurs or humans?

No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth.
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Can mammoths come back?

As of date, no viable mammoth tissue or its intact genome has been found to attempt cloning. According to one research team, a mammoth cannot be recreated, but the team will try to eventually grow in an "artificial womb" a hybrid elephant with some woolly mammoth traits.
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