Dinosaur Files

Did You Know-Possible to Bring Back Dinosaurs?

I was watching a documentary called "Dinosaurs Return to Life" and it basically said how it is now possible to bring a dinosaur back to life. All you need is DNA and a bird. Tweak the bird's genes and you'll get a dinosaur. They experimented on a chicken embryo and the result was a dinosaur-like long tail. Another experiment conducted made the chicken embryo have dinosaur-like teeth. Paleontologist Jack Horner believes we will have a prototype dinosaur in less than 50 years while his colleague believes it will be 100-120 years. However, there are many trials and errors. What's your thoughts about this? I found it really interesting.

Public Comments

1. Possible, but unlikely. One would have to get the entire dinosaur specie genome translated properly. And the best you'd come up with is a dinosaur/bird hybrid. Best guess, humans cannot interbreed with chimpanzees. Despite being nearly identical genetically.
2. Hypothetically, yes. Practically, it's unclear. As in the case of the Jurassic Park stories, there is no example of a complete dinosaur genome, so modifications and accommodations must be made. These will prevent us from ever getting an exact replica of a dinosaur.
3. If this is possible we MUST consider the consequences. How would you control a 40 T Rex. I don't know how you would go about training him, and there are to many things that could go wrong for this to happen..Did you ever watch Jurrasic Park???