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Ever since Michael Crichton brought Doctor Wu to life in Jurassic Park, and fans flocked to watch Wu bring Dinosaurs to life from the blood of preserved mosquitos, the debate about re-animating the dead or extinct has been ongoing.
The closest we’ve come to manufacturing a real dinosaur, has been in the lab where we’ve turned back time a litte bit in chickens.
Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, by simply losing their tails and transforming their arms into wings, it would reason that turning back the clock on that evolution would produce a proper replica.
But, I use the term manufacture, because, making something that looks like a dino would be easier than producing an exact clone.
In most cloning a nucleus of the animal is swapped with the nucleus of an egg, because the nucleus contains most of the information needed. Finding an entire nucleus of a long extinct animal is unlikely.
Though, there has been talk of trying to ressurect the wholly mammoth from such well-preserved specimens, found in perma frost.
Physics, today, claim that an observer has a sizable effect on the outcome of experiments, and Dr…