LINK Scientists in China May Have Found 125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur DNA | Ancient Origins
Jurassic Park may be a reality at some point…
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Seems a new milestone. However, the way we're going we won't be around long enough to fully explore this discovery.
JackPedigo
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Dec 1, 2021
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We can tell the colors of feathers and fur due to chemicals preserved in fossils that just look like normal stone. It's like the claims they found 65 million year old "soft tissue" as if there's a chunk of raw meat in the rock from 65 million years ago, which it isn't. The fossil preserves the structure and trace chemicals, it's still fucking rock.
There might be enough information to restructure the DNA, if they use guides from the DNA of extant species like birds that are the descendants of dinosaurs.
I don't for a second entertain the notion that this will remotely resemble Jurassic Park.
Decades if not centuries before we reconstruct a 125 million year old species we'll bring back mammoths and carrier pigeons and the Tasmanian wolf. Even before we bring back other species we'll start modifying our own DNA.
Willow_Wisp
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Dec 1, 2021
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I fully expect human manipulation at some point, if not already occurring. I suppose they are trying some already, snipping out genes that carry certain medical conditions. It will start out for medical reasons and at some point get into looks and then athletics. Then, building a Khan.