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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What year will dinosaurs come back?

This may seem like the most far-fetched concept ever, but believe it or not, it has been predicted that humans will be able to bring dinosaurs back from extinction in some capacity by 2050.
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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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Is there any dinosaur DNA left?

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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Does dinosaur DNA exist?

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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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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Can dinosaurs come back to life in 2050?

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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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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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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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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What was the first dinosaur?

Nyasasaurus Parringtoni is believed to be the earliest dinosaur to have ever lived on Earth. It predates all other dinosaurs by more than 10 million years.
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How many years is 2050 from now?

2050 is only about 30 years from now, which means it's close enough that we can imagine it happening, but far enough away that we can't confidently say what it will look like.
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What would happen if dinosaurs came back?

After all, if dinosaurs were alive today, their immune systems would probably be ill-equipped to handle our modern panoply of bacteria, fungi and viruses. The chasm is just too large to make that a likely possibility.
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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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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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How long has it been since year 0?

Year 0 is defined as 0000-00-00 00:00 GMT. Please note that this is not a valid date! There is no year 0. At this time there are ~63823364754 seconds since year 0 (6.382*1010).
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How many days are there in 2021?

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The year 2021 has 365 days.
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How many days are there in the year 2020?

In a non-leap year, there are 365 days, in a leap year there are 366 days. A leap year occurs every fourth year, or leap year, during which a leap day is intercalated into the month of February.
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What was last dinosaur?

For now, however, the 65-million-year-old Triceratops is the world's last known surviving dinosaur.
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What dinosaur is the weakest?

17 Weakest: Gallimimus Were Herbivore Grazers Who Traveled In Herds.
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When was the last dinosaur alive?

Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after living on Earth for about 165 million years.
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Did oxygen make dinosaurs bigger?

Some paleontologists speculated that oxygen might be behind the evolution of huge dinosaurs, too, but the hypothesis has been totally undermined by evidence from the geological record and dinosaur anatomy.
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Would humans be able to breathe 65 million years ago?

If we used a time machine to travel back to a prehistoric period, the earliest we could survive would be the Cambrian (around 541 million years ago). Any earlier than that and there wouldn't have been enough oxygen in the air to breathe.
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