Why is it not possible to make a complete living organism from the samples/remains found from millions of years ago?
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Even with complete DNA, then what? DNA is not an organism. An organism would have to be cloned, and cloning is still technically difficult when we have living examples.
If it’s an egg-laying animal, we would have to manufacture an appropriate egg cell and also a physical shell and incubate the creature. We can’t do that. For a placental mammal, we would need to create the egg cell and also get it to implant and grow in a host mother. That might be possible if there were surviving very close relatives, but even having an elephant give birth to a mamma orb would be a huge technical challenge after the huge technical challenge of creating a mammoth zygote.
It may be possible one day, if the DNA could be found, but right now it’s not.
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