Could the dinosaurs ever come back? The idea that people could bring dinosaurs back someday is both exciting and scary. But it's no joke. Your childhood dream of a real-life Jurassic Park could actually come true in 30 years! And, yes, scientists were initially inspired by the famous movie. They wanted to find a mosquito stuck in amber and extract dinosaur DNA from it.
But real-world scientists came across a big problem: the oldest DNA sample they were able to get was only 1 million years old. Only because all the dinosaurs went extinct some 65 million years ago! So instead of looking for dinosaur DNA hanging out in the belly of an ancient mosquito, they decided to take DNA from the closest descendants of these reptilian giants.
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Closest descendants of dinosaurs 0: 39
Mini-tyrannosaurus! 1: 40
Will a world shared with dinosaurs be cool? 2: 34
Why we couldnt let them live free in the wild 3: 51
What if the dinosaurs had never disappeared? 4: 27 Date: 2022-04-19
