We've all seen or heard of Jurassic Park & I just wondered could we really have dinosaurs walking down the street? Not that there would be any street left because they'll have destroyed it.
But scientifically is it actually possible??
Also even if we did manage it wouldnt they just die in our atmosphere as it has changed dramatically since they last roamed the earth?
2006-08-08 06:39:16 · 18 answers · asked by tjstarbe 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I think it'd eventuallly be possible. And that's an interesting point about the atmosphere. It was definately a lot more humid back then. But to tell the truth...at the rate global warming is going...living conditions for dinosaurs could very well be possible in the not too distant future.
2006-08-08 06:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by mak 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not likely. The Charles Pellegrino - Jurassic Park scenario of finding enough intact dinosaur DNA on insects trapped in amber, then being able to sort it into the correct dinosaurs, is very unlikely.
2006-08-08 07:11:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible... Jurassic park was theoretically correct in that it is possible to extract DNA from dead things, but not fossils. Possibly amber - but unlikely...
Once you have it - its just adding it to an empty egg & seeing what happens... Cloning is the same.. The main problem is the egg.. Could it support an animal that size? perhaps a small dino with an ostrich egg?
As for the atmosphere - should be ok... higher humidity +co2 /o2/ so2 levels, but essentially the same..
2006-08-08 07:16:01 · answer #3 · answered by want_to_explore_life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not in the near future. Jurassic park is a good story. It takes great deal of technological advancement for such stories to come true in real life. May be another 100 years.
2006-08-08 06:58:17 · answer #4 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. the proper blueprint for their shape, that's the DNA, is lost completely. DNA can not final for greater suitable than hundred thousand years. Dinosaurs disappeared sixty 5 million years in the past. Fossil DNAs meant to be that previous are surely plenty greater moderen bacterial DNAs contaminating the unique species in the process the final hundred thousand years. Cloning those DNAs is probable to offer far deadlier extinct micro organism than dinosaurs
2016-11-04 03:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by filonuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birds are dinosaurs
The atmosphere hasn't changed that dramatically that extinct dinosaurs couldn't live in it.
2006-08-08 07:01:04 · answer #6 · answered by Misfit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We'd have to create a new species based on dinosaur DNA but they wouldn't be the same.
2006-08-08 08:49:16 · answer #7 · answered by Xan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course it will be. We just have to invent a time-machine, go back, grab a few, shove them in a specially contstructed greenhouse the size of London etc etc etc.
2006-08-08 06:52:10 · answer #8 · answered by Ian H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear they're being trained for operations in border enforcement. Plenty of food but not enough water. It's a problem.
2006-08-08 07:42:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are dinosaurs living today, just look at the alligator, crocodile, komodo dragon, Mick Jagger, etc.
2006-08-08 06:44:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋