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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Mammoth DNA can sometimes been found though it’s mostly degraded, however it should be possible to find enough of it and piece together a complete strand.
[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/)
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32432693)
Most dinosaur fossils have been petrified so there’s only traces of the original material present. In the samples of actual remains found the DNA has almost always degraded. However [https://www.the-scientist.com/paleontologists-find-possible-dinosaur-dna-69346](https://www.the-scientist.com/paleontologists-find-possible-dinosaur-dna-69346)
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