Is it possible to recreate dinosaurs

If you work at Jurassic Park's genetic engineering facility you simply combine it with frog DNA and recreate an extinct reptile. They identified where the holes are and filled them with frog DNA. But the problem is that you don't know where the holes are if you don't have the whole genome,' explains Susie. A genome is the complete set of DNA of a living thing. Without the full genome, it would be impossible to tell which parts of the DNA have been found and therefore impossible to fill the gaps to build a whole animal.

If you were going to do it, you'd use bird DNA, because birds are dinosaurs. Or you might do it with crocodile DNA, because they share a common ancestor. 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. So it looks like cloning a dinosaur is off the table, but an alternate way to recreate the extinct animals would be to reverse-engineer one.

This involves starting with a living animal and working backwards towards ancient reptiles, attempting to reverse at least 66 million years of evolution.

Susie explains, 'You could take a chicken and genetically engineer it so it has teeth or a long tail. But even if you do, it's not a dinosaur, because it was reverse engineered. Scientists have been trying to genetically-engineer a mammoth from an Asian elephant, which is the woolly animal's closest living relative.

This is a model of a woolly mammoth found in Ilford, Essex. But an animal that died out naturally, perhaps million years ago, is not going to recognise anything in this world if you bring it back. What is its function, where do we put it, does anyone own it? An attempt to resurrect dinosaurs presents many caveats scientifically and ethically - making things to put in zoos or amusement parks like Jurassic World likely isn't the answer.

So for now dinosaurs are probably going to remain safely in the past. But using genetic engineering to bring back extinct animals might be considered reasonable in some circumstances. So if someone was going to bring back the passenger pigeon, then I think you could justify that.

They were living in a modern ecosystem and could fit in. The passenger pigeon Ectopistes migratorius is an extinct migratory species. These birds died out in the nineteenth century due to extensive hunting by people and rapid loss of their deciduous forest habitats. And if you saw any of those movies, you had to wonder: Could real scientists do that today? Dig up a fossil today, and any dino-DNA within would have long since fallen apart. With only fragments, scientists still could not make a complete dinosaur.

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Instead, a group of scientists at Harvard and Yale have turned their eye to -- wait for it -- the modern-day chicken. In an attempt to reverse evolution, the team has already made significant strides in mutating chickens back to the very creatures from which they descended. And these molecules decay, Ausich said.

Given that the last dinosaur died 65 million years ago, chances of finding DNA were extremely slim. Ausich said even if the scientists were able to come up with fragments of a dinosaur, they would not be able to make a complete dinosaur.

According to the paleontologist, this organism would not be a complete or actual dinosaur but rather a hybrid of a dinosaur and a bird or a reptile. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel.

A known paleontologist says it's impossible to recreate dinosaurs He said DNA disintegrated in about 7 million years And dinosaurs have been extinct for much longer.