To: Marty62
Well H why not a T-Rex?Read the article ....
Some mammoth remains still retain usable tissue samples, making it possible to recover cells for cloning, unlike dinosaurs, which disappeared around 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils.
10 posted on
01/18/2011 8:39:32 AM PST by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: al_c
Partial dino DNA has been extracted, but is fragmentary and cannot be used to revive dinos. Mammoth DNA comes from the flash frozen carcasses in the Siberian tundra. Extracting DNA from these carcasses would be similar to extracting the DNA from a flash frozen salmon. The trick is getting the material into a modern elephant embryo and gestating it.
12 posted on
01/18/2011 8:48:16 AM PST by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: al_c
Yes, this is why in Jurassic Park, they relied on dinosaur blood trapped in amber-encased mosquitos.
While there are traces of soft tissue from some dinosaurs in some fossil finds, to my knowledge, there is no complete, intact DNA upon which a dinosaur reconstruction could be based.
Even then, Mammoths have a genetic half-brother still extant today in the modern Elephant...We would be hard-pressed to find a modern egg capable to bearing a dinosaur hatchling to term. It would have to be artificial, in all likelihood.
13 posted on
01/18/2011 8:50:19 AM PST by
Heavyrunner
(Socialize this.)
To: al_c
like dinosaurs, which disappeared around 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils.
Sort of like conservative Republicans. /sarc
14 posted on
01/18/2011 8:50:55 AM PST by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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