Is it possible to find a frozen dinosaur?

In the icy badlands of Alberta, paleontologists have found a “frozen dragon
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: 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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Has anyone ever found a frozen dinosaur?

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 it possible to find a dinosaur in ice?

You could never find a dinosaur frozen in ice and ready to be dissected, he says. “There's no ice from that time period,” he explains. It might be possible to find one that has some of its soft features, such as skin or muscle, preserved. “But it won't be bleeding,” he notes.
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Can dinosaur DNA be recovered?

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 dinosaur DNA be found?

In 2020, Bailleul and her colleagues reported the possible preservation of DNA in the skull of an infant Hypacrosaurus, a kind of duck-billed dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago, found in Montana. The possible DNA was found in cartilage, the connective tissue that makes up the joints.
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Can dinosaurs come 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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Are dinosaurs still alive in 2021?

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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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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Will dinosaurs come back in 5 years?

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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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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What happens if you find a dinosaur egg?

The fact is that dinosaur eggs are only rarely preserved. An abandoned nest probably would have attracted predators, which would have cracked them open, feasted on the contents, and scattered the fragile eggshells. But the vast majority of eggs probably would have hatched, leaving behind a pile of fractured eggshells.
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What is the rarest fossil?

Fossils of birds from this time period are rare, with baby fossils seen as "the rarest of the rare". Scientists say the discovery gives a peek into the lives of the ancient, long-extinct birds that lived between 250 and 66 million years ago.
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What lived on Antarctica before it froze?

Before becoming frozen wasteland, Antarctica was home to frogs.
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Do dragons exist?

Dragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom. It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons, but if you're willing to stretch a bit, most classic dragon characteristics do exist in other species.
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Was a frozen dragon found?

Newly-identified pterosaur species had a wingspan of 10 metres.
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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 a dinosaur be cloned?

"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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Can we bring back the dodo?

It's not possible. The limit of DNA survival, which we'd need for de-extinction, is probably around one million years or less.
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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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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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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 a chicken a dinosaur?

So, are chickens dinosaurs? No – the birds are a distinct group of animals, but they did descend from the dinosaurs, and it's not too much of a twist of facts to call them modern dinosaurs. There are many similarities between the two types of animal, largely to do with bone structure.
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Do dinosaurs still exist in the ocean?

For millions of years, reptiles dominated the Earth. Many that dwelled on land were dinosaurs. But no dinos swam in the seas.
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Is a rhino a dinosaur?

So, it would seem that rhinos could be smaller relatives of these dinosaurs, however, this is untrue. Rhinos are not related to dinosaurs, even remotely. The biggest difference is that rhinos are mammals and dinosaurs are considered reptiles.
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What if dinosaurs never went extinct?

"If dinosaurs didn't go extinct, mammals probably would've remained in the shadows, as they had been for over a hundred million years," says Brusatte. "Humans, then, probably would've never been here." But Dr. Gulick suggests the asteroid may have caused less of an extinction had it hit a different part of the planet.
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