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 resurrect dinosaurs?

"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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Why Jurassic Park is impossible?

Plus, there's one other teeny obstacle to setting up Jurassic Park: no one has actually ever found any dinosaur DNA. Scientists know that DNA degrades over time, and the oldest DNA ever found is about a million years old. The dinosaur DNA you need would have had to survive around 65m years.
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Has dinosaur DNA been found?

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 mosquito possible?

Most biologists agree the Jurassic Park scenario isn't possible, as any blood an insect was carrying would deteriorate rapidly and be contaminated with the insect's DNA. However, scientists have extracted DNA from insects in 120-million-year-old amber.
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Is a REAL LIFE Jurassic Park Possible?



Can DNA be extracted from dinosaur egg?

Chinese scientists believe they have isolated DNA fragments from a fossilized dinosaur egg and hope the discovery will shed light on the heredity and physiology of the extinct creatures, an official newspaper reported Friday.
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Can you actually get DNA from amber?

Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from insects trapped in amber. But before you start dreaming of a certain park, there's one huge caveat to mention – any creatures you might revive from this would hail from the not-so-distant past of about 2014.
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Can dinosaurs come back in 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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Is there any dinosaur alive?

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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Can T Rex only see you if you move?

The Tyrannous Rex not only could see just fine, whether the object was moving or non-moving (which helps one not run into things), there's also quite a bit of evidence that the T-Rex's sight was extremely good, very possibly better than modern-day hawks and eagles.
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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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Are dinosaurs coming back in 2025?

According to scientists, we are officially in a window of time where technology can bring the dinosaurs back. Sometime between now and 2025. During a panel published five years as of June 9, 2020, the scientist who Jurassic Park's Dr.
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Is Jurassic Park realistic?

In fact, they were some of the first movies to deviate from the concept of slow and lazy dinosaurs. In that sense, the movie was more accurate than not. While obviously not every dinosaur speed was accurate (a lot has been learned since that first movie came out), it was overall a solid depiction of their movements.
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Can humans clone?

Despite several highly publicized claims, human cloning still appears to be fiction. There currently is no solid scientific evidence that anyone has cloned human embryos.
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Was Sue the T Rex pregnant?

The results confirmed those from the 2005 study, that the T. rex had medullary bone and was likely pregnant when she died, Schweitzer said. "This analysis allows us to determine the gender of this fossil, and gives us a window into the evolution of egg laying in modern birds," Schweitzer said in a statement.
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Do mosquitoes have dinosaur DNA?

While this might seem possible at first glance, it's highly unlikely that scientists could find usable dinosaur DNA in mosquito fossils. Scientists would need a very specific specimen -- a female mosquito that had consumed lots of dinosaur blood immediately before landing in tree resin.
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Does a dragon exist?

Dragons are one of the few monsters cast in mythology primarily as a powerful and fearsome opponent to be slain. They don't simply exist for their own sake; they exist largely as a foil for bold adventurers.
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Which dinosaur is still alive in 2022?

On Feb. 10, 2022 in Alberta, Canada, scientsits announced a newly identified dinosaur, known by its Latin name thanatotheristes degrootorum. The dinosaur is roughly a 79.5 million-year-old fossil and makes the new species 2.5 million years older than its closest relative.
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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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Can we make 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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How much is a dinosaur egg worth?

U.S. man saw the price as right. LONDON — *TC LONDON -- When a nest of 10 100-million-year-old petrified dinosaur eggs fetches $76,000, it seems only right to praise the common hen, whose eggs are fresher, cheaper and no doubt taste better soft-boiled.
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Is titanoboa coming back?

As the Earth's temperatures rise, there's a possibility the Titanoboa - or something like it - could make a comeback. But scientist Dr Carlos Jaramillo points out that it wouldn't happen quickly: "It takes geological time to develop a new species. It could take a million years - but perhaps they will!"
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Can DNA survive millions of years?

Rigorous attempts to reproduce these DNA sequences from amber- and copal-preserved bees and flies have failed to detect any authentic ancient insect DNA. Lack of reproducibility suggests that DNA does not survive over millions of years even in amber, the most promising of fossil environments.
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Are bugs in amber alive?

Amber is fossilized tree resin. Bugs can become encased in amber if, while alive, they get stuck in the resin.
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Why did they use blood from a mosquito in Jurassic Park?

In the film, scientists extract dinosaur blood from the gut of a prehistoric mosquito, preserved in amber. They then use the DNA in the dinosaur blood to create the terrifying creatures that roam the island and eventually maim and kill many of the characters.
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