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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Unfortunately you are likely right that finding intact DNA will be pretty much impossible. The other issue is even with intact DNA, actually using it would be a bigger challenge. Because the DNA is just the blueprint, but it doesn’t provide the tools to bring back an entire lifeform from it. Mammoths at least if they found true DNA would have had the perk of a modern elephant probably could carry the first babies and we roughly have an idea of how to raise mammoths based on their very close relatives the elephants. No such luck with something as far removed as a dinosaur and turning that DNA into an intact egg, and that’s before we figure out how to incubate it, and how to raise the dino. We have very little idea of how each known dinosaur actually lived, what they truly ate, specific needs, how much of their survival was learned or taught by parents, etc
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