Why have we not created another Dinosaur?

Question

I probably shouldn't be asking this question as I'm relatively scientifically challenged. But I have read numerous facts that scientists can take the preserved DNA of a dinosaur and re-create. Why has this not happened? Was I misled and it's not possible afterall? Please, feel free to fill me in on the currencies of this matter. Having a life-long fascination with dinosaurs, this is something I've always wondered about. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You were misled.

There was an idea to do this and that's what led michael crichton to the idea of doing it in jurassic park. We can get the blood from the mosquitos trapped in tree sap, but the challenge is getting white blood cells instead of red since red blood cells do not contain DNA.

Also, when we clone things today, we use a living egg from a female and implant a cell's DNA into it and put it into a female of the same species. we cannot replicate life as of yet i.e. start with dead flesh and make it come alive. if we had a living T-rex and took some T-rex DNA we could theoretically put it into a t-rex egg and out would come a cloned t-rex, but we don't have that right now and until we find a way to replicate an animal's body from scratch and make it magically come alive, we can't bring back an animal of the past.

Answer 2

Humans have created enough havoc's on earth, why would we want more havoc's?
Food shortage is another reason... and anyway, remnants of dinosaurs are still could be found like the crocodile, elephants, giraffe, and countless others. All creatures alive today are still part of the dinosaurs but survivors, others are just extinct.

Answer 3

I agree with all the above reasons but I also think that we will likely be able to do it in the future, since there does not seem to be any fundamental obstacle. "Just" a need to better master some required techniques (eg artificial egg/embryo environment development), and of course to find well conserved DNA

Answer 4

Though we can get some dinosaur DNA out of insects preserved in amber, the DNA we do get is so badly degraded and deteriorated that it is not sufficient to recreate dinosaurs.

Sorry, I wish we had little dinosaurs, too:).

Answer 5

There are plenty of dinosaurs around on the planet today. They have feathers and are called birds. They have evolved from one branch of the dinosaurs.

Answer 6

There have been instances where marrow has been recovered from dinosaur bones. Unfortunately, the technology is not sufficient to allow cloning from this material.

Answer 7

We can't recover dinosaur DNA.

Its a shame I know but there you go. Michael Crighton was way off when he wrote Jurassic Park.

Answer 8

I am a geneticist and i wonder the same thing. I have applied to become a surrogate dinosaur mother but so far no responses. Well I can't wait to have my own baby dinosaur runnin' around the house. I'll prolly name him Spot or Josh or Steve.