So I know some stuff about Deextinction that makes me feel like it’s unlikely but from doing some research I wasn’t really sure what the answer is.
I know with the wooly mammoth that they are working on they couldn’t actually find complete dna even with some solid samples in decent environmental conditions (frozen in the arctic) and they went extinct MUCH more recently than dinosaurs. They only got bits and pieces of it because it degrades too fast so now they are basically just designing a new animal that’s a hairy elephant with tusks.
This makes me think that dna just degrades too fast for us to find complete dna from that long ago. Based on what I was reading it seems like the whole getting dna from mosquitos in amber and stuff isn’t really possible.
Is it possible there is still Dino dna out there in the world that we just either havnt found or havnt figured out how to be able to access yet? Obviously there is always a possibility but I mean some type of science that could lead to that conclusion? Based on the wooly mammoth it seems like if we got some decent parts of dna we could bring back some alternate version of dinosaurs
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Most dinosaur fossils are mineral replacement fossils and the dna is long gone, only traces of the original organic materials remain. The rare, preserved dinosaur remains don’t normally yield much DNA and that degraded, however it’s not impossible [https://www.the-scientist.com/paleontologists-find-possible-dinosaur-dna-69346](https://www.the-scientist.com/paleontologists-find-possible-dinosaur-dna-69346)
Mammoths are a different story, most of their remains are original and the DNA is not fully gone so there are multiple fragments of the same species which could, in theory, be patched together to form a complete DNA strand [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693)
and there’s a chance we could simply find a complete strand anyway [https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268417-first-million-year-old-dna-extracted-from-siberian-mammoth-teeth/](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268417-first-million-year-old-dna-extracted-from-siberian-mammoth-teeth/)
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