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 it is true that dna is too unstable to survive that long, even in the most ideal storage conditions. Maybe they can find bits of ice age dna like colossial biosciences is working on, but t rex type dinos theres just no fesable way dna can survive that long.
Who knows though, maybe theres some other more esoteric way of measuring creatures of the past, that biologists have yet to figure out. Or if our simulations of evolution get sophisticated enough, we can run simulations of long periods of time in earth like conditions and see if something like dinosaurs emerge. That could give us clues as to what their dna would look like or what niches they occupied in the ecosystem
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