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 humans recreate dinosaurs?

Bottom line: We can't recreate dinosaurs from their DNA because the DNA no longer exists. DNA disintegrates in about 7 million years, and dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.
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Will dinosaurs be back by 2050?

The Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank, has released a new report predicting what life will be like in 2050. According to the report: "Several species of dinosaur will be recreated, making their appearance on Earth for the first time in 66 million years.
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What dinosaur is still alive?

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.
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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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Can we create dinosaurs from DNA?

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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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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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 humans breathe same air as dinosaurs?

However, you might be breathing some of the same air that dinosaurs breathed millions of years ago. Today, it takes about 6 million years for an O2 molecule to be made by photosynthesis and then to react with other elements to be taken out of the air.
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Could a dinosaur breathe today?

Yes. Given the recent studies as described here and here show that oxygen levels were actually lower (10 to 15% as compared to 21% today). So breathing would be the least of dinosaurs problem. Dinosaurs might then be subject to oxygen toxicity effects, which can be lethal.
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Is Jurassic World Real yes or no?

Set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, Jurassic World takes place on the same fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. A successful theme park of cloned dinosaurs, dubbed Jurassic World, has operated on the island for years, bringing John Hammond's dream to fruition.
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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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Are dinosaur eggs real?

Until the 1980s, discoveries of fossilized eggs and bones of young dinosaurs were extremely rare, but dinosaur eggs have now been discovered on several continents, and fossils of hatchlings, juveniles, and adults have been found for most major groups.
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How did dinosaurs get here?

Dinosaurs arose from small dinosauromorph ancestors in the Triassic period, when the climate was harsh and dry. They faced "competition from the croc-line archosaurs for tens of millions of years, [but] finally prevailed when Pangaea began to split," Brusatte told Live Science.
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Can dinosaurs come back to life?

Unfortunately, dinosaurs probably cannot be cloned and brought back to life. Their DNA is too old since dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years. Any genetic information is not likely to survive for one million years, so the dinosaurs are simply too old to be cloned.
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Can scientists bring back the Megalodon?

Using recovered DNA to "genetically resurrect" an extinct species — the central idea behind the Jurassic Park films — may be moving closer to reality with the creation this week of a new company that aims to bring back woolly mammoths thousands of years after the last of the giants disappeared from the Arctic tundra.
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Can we bring back extinct animals?

To bring back an extinct species, scientists would first need to sequence its genome, then edit the DNA of a close living relative to match it. Next comes the challenge of making embryos with the revised genome and bringing them to term in a living surrogate mother.
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Can I buy dinosaur eggs?

The short answer is. No, we don't have any dinosaur eggs for sale and are very unlikely to in the future. The longer explanation is this… Basically, all commercially available dinosaur eggs on the market come from either Mongolia or China.
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Has a baby dinosaur been found?

Over the last 100 years, many fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests have been found, but finding one with a well-preserved embryo inside is exceedingly rare. Now, researchers reporting in the journal iScience on December 21, 2021, have detailed one such specimen discovered in southern China.
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Has a frozen dinosaur been found?

Scientists have discovered what they believe is the first dinosaur known to have lived in icy Greenland 214 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Period.
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Is de-extinction possible?

It's not possible. The limit of DNA survival, which we'd need for de-extinction, is probably around one million years or less. Dinosaurs had been gone for a very long time by then.
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Can we clone the dodo?

Currently, without the ability to cryopreserve the cells of bird species and clone them later, there is no scientific failsafe for birds like there is for mammals in case of genetic bottlenecks or critical endangerment.
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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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What dinosaurs are real?

The dinosaurs were real, reptilian creatures that lived several hundred million years ago. Although traces of their descendants still live today, the dinosaurs that once ruled the earth have long since been extinct.
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Which dinosaur is found in India?

Rajasaurus (meaning "princely lizard") is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of India, containing one species: Rajasaurus narmadensis.
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