Can it be real? Has anyone tried?

dinodamone · Post by **dinodamone** » 15 Mar 2004, 12:45

Okay.. this may of come up before but I couldn't find it discussed anywhere.

Has anybody actually tried to breed dinosaurs? Like.. is what Michael Crichton wrote, plausible? Can you use a frog's DNA structure to fill in the gaps of a Dinosaur's DNA code? Have they actually FOUND dino blood in ancient insects?

So many questions!!! It's all so interesting! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Nagisa · Post by **Nagisa** » 15 Mar 2004, 16:03

It wouldn't work. DNA found in fossils...if any is found...is far too deteriorated to even patch with a surrogate. DNA found in amber-encased insects would similarly be deteriorated, not to mention it would be mixed up with the DNA of several other animals the mosquito may have bit into. Separating the DNA of two animals whose genetic information we've never seen before is just not done.

Speaking of patching DNA holes with a surrogate animal, that doesn't work either. Where do you get the surrogate? Frogs are amphibians, dinosaurs were somewhere in between crocodilians and birds. So do you use birds or crocodilians? Is there a specific species? Does the species you derive the surrogate from differ depending on the dinosaur species whose DNA you want to patch up? In the patching process, does the animal become more the surrogate and less a dinosaur? Is it even a dinosaur at all anymore with its DNA filled with traces of Nanday parrot?

dinodamone · Post by **dinodamone** » 15 Mar 2004, 16:38

What a brilliant answer. Thankyou /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Tyrannis · Post by **Tyrannis** » 15 Mar 2004, 20:11

The only way that there will ever be "dinosaurs" again is through reverse engineering from birds back, Genetically engineer a bird or croc to look more like a dino, or the best one yet go back in time and bring a few up to the future. take your pick the only two that are gonna work though are the reverse and genetic engineering. As a matter of fact scientists have recently been able to engineer a chicken to have tooth buds which is something birds lost 60 million years ago and hey are forseeing a dino like animal to be alive in between 60-100 years from now.

Post by **the ARK** » 15 Mar 2004, 22:00

And, the dino DNA would have quickly disentegrated in the stomach acid of the mosquito.

OneWingSephiroth · Post by **OneWingSephiroth** » 18 Mar 2004, 10:27

Oh maybe in a few thousand years...human's just might be able to pull it off... /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />...I dunno, if you went back a thousand years ago, and said to the people that within a thousand years people will be landing on the moon...everyone would go...that's impossible...I dunno, I doubt this would ever happened, but the possibility is still their.

Tyrannis · Post by **Tyrannis** » 19 Mar 2004, 00:44

It's not that hard to do I mean the principle is pretty simple it just involves reversing the evolution of the animal by turning on and off the genes that control the development of the animal. All the genes of this animals predecessor are still there they just need to be turned on again or they need to be told to be on longer, the rate that genetic technology is progressing right now I can see this being a reality before the century is over.

dinodamone · Post by **dinodamone** » 19 Mar 2004, 08:31

Or perhaps they are already real and have been created in area 51!!!! oooooh /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

Tyrannis · Post by **Tyrannis** » 27 Mar 2004, 00:14

don't go conspiracy theorist on me ok? I might do something, I don't know what but I just might

Mr.Dodgson · Post by **Mr.Dodgson** » 01 Apr 2004, 12:27

But wouldn't it also be possible to clone a dinosaur that might have been frozen or mumified by sand or something of the like?