• Question: Will they ever be able to bring back dinosaurs using DNA or similar, much like in Jurassic Park/World?

    Asked by 889hrtd35 to Cristina on 19 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Cristina Villa del Campo

      Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      Hi 889hrtd35,

      That is a very interesting question! Actually there is a palaeontologist in Montana (US) who is studying just that! Apparently the character in Jurassic Park is based on him. They are trying to modify the chicken genome (because birds are closer to dinos than reptiles evolutionary speaking)!
      I don’t know if he will be able to do it. He says getting DNA from the bones that they find is very hard, but technology goes forward very quickly so who knows!
      Go check him out, this video explains everything! (can you tell I like dinos?)

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