Perhaps they could be all singing, all dancing, all talking dinosaurs! In fact, my family already had one of those: Joey, a sulphur crested white cockatoo.
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Why exactly don't we have a Jurassic Park?
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I don't think anematronic dinos is enough of a pull for the expense. Stick one in a museum or Mall of America now and then to entertain the kiddies. That's about it.
Now the question is, is there a basis for enough DNA fragments found in an amber encased mosquito to stick it in a chicken egg and pop out a dino? I'm thinking no, then I read this link with a fairly in depth discussion of why it's not possible:
Now they have found frozen mammoths in glaziers. Why not those?
Now the question is, is there a basis for enough DNA fragments found in an amber encased mosquito to stick it in a chicken egg and pop out a dino? I'm thinking no, then I read this link with a fairly in depth discussion of why it's not possible:
Now they have found frozen mammoths in glaziers. Why not those?
It would be nice to get a woolly mammoth up and running if they can take the DNA samples and reassemble them into a full genome.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ay-Tokyo-woolly.html?ico=sciencetech^mostread
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ay-Tokyo-woolly.html?ico=sciencetech^mostread
FWIW there is also a traveling arena show, now in Japan. http://www.dinosaurlive.com
I saw many of the robots in Toronto a few years back.
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I saw many of the robots in Toronto a few years back.
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It is near Wales somewhere.. my folks took me there when I was a nipper.. still have the dinosaur from the gift shop somewhere!
Are you looking for funds to build this absolutely can't miss, people will drive miles and show up in droves idea?
Are you kidding? I'd pour the kids into the Wagon Queen Family Truckster and drive straight there, right after we visit the world's second largest ball of twine.
Actually, some soft tissue has been found in several fossilized dinosaur bones, and proteins and the like were extracted. It appears for example that the T-Rex is a distant relative of the modern ostrich, which more or less acknowledges the theory that birds are actually evolved dinosaurs.
In theory, bird DNA still has the genes in them that could enable them to be dinosaurs but since the dinosaur genome is unknown it would be guessing which genes do what (I'm sure sure if even the bird genome is fully known).
It is impossible with current tech but I wouldn't exclude the possibility that one day in the distant future we may be able to accurately reproduce several dinosaur species.
In theory, bird DNA still has the genes in them that could enable them to be dinosaurs but since the dinosaur genome is unknown it would be guessing which genes do what (I'm sure sure if even the bird genome is fully known).
It is impossible with current tech but I wouldn't exclude the possibility that one day in the distant future we may be able to accurately reproduce several dinosaur species.