• Question: Could we get the dinosaurs back by re-finding their DNA like in Jurassic Park?

    Asked by Charlie to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I am very optimistic and I think maybe!

      Not by doing it exactly like Jurassic park, but at some point we might have enough fragments from fossils and be able to predict what the rest of the DNA would look like and be able to make a dinosaur. I hope!

      I think it would probably be best to try it out with some things that we have all of the DNA of that went extinct relatively recently, and probably reptiles and birds would be easier to grow than mammals.

      You never know, you might be the one to work out how to do it!

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