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    Recent Developments On The Jurasic Park Front

    We Can Now Extract the DNA of Rare Animals Preserved in Museum Jars
    http://www.seeker.com/we-can-now-ext...214864961.html




    Researchers find 195 million year old dinosaur rib bones with perfectly preserved proteins in them
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz4XS6nqqSk
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    They've been looking for dino DNA for decades. I'm glad they've finally found some viable samples. Hopefully, in another 10-15 years, I'll be able to see my first, living dinosaur.

    I'm ready. Bring it on!!!!
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    regan raptor.jpg

    the market for raptors will be huge
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    When Jack Horner dug up the T-Rex, Sue, they found some possibly-viable DNA in her tibia. At the time, it was a breakthrough in paleontology as no one had found any in a fossil that old.
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    They need to be careful. Can you imagine the devastation if they were able to combine the DNA of a Velociraptor and a Jack Russell Terrier?

    Sometime I look at Jimmy and think they already have!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Simmons View Post
    They need to be careful. Can you imagine the devastation if they were able to combine the DNA of a Velociraptor and a Jack Russell Terrier?

    Sometime I look at Jimmy and think they already have!

    It would be called Indominus Jack.
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    Woolly mammoth on the verge of resurrection, scientists say
    Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team just two years away from creating a hybrid embryo, in which mammoth traits would be programmed into an Asian elephant
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ion-scientists
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    "Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."

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    Chinese Scientists Have Restored Cells of the Woolly Mammoth --"Disappeared After Ice Age 4,000 Years Ago"
    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...age-4000-.html
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    Thumbs up

    I would be totally thrilled to see a herd of T-Rexes rampaging through the streets of Chicago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrkalashnikov View Post
    I would be totally thrilled to see a herd of T-Rexes rampaging through the streets of Chicago.

    hehehehehehehhe
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    Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs And Neanderthals Back To Life
    The Neanderthals went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, so cloning one from recovered DNA would be impressive enough of a feat — but what about something from 65 million years ago? Dr. Kaku addresses this, admitting that cloning a dinosaur won’t be as easy as cloning a Neanderthal or a mammoth (which wouldn’t very “easy” to begin with) — but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

    Dr. Kaku notes that proteins found within the soft tissues of recovered dinosaur femurs resemble those of chickens, frogs, and reptiles — confirm the theory of their relation. He posits that through the use of a supercomputer, a genetic sequence could be produced, which would create theoretical potential for cloning through epigenetics.
    http://www.malaysiandigest.com/techn...k-to-life.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5.56NATO View Post
    Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs And Neanderthals Back To Life
    The Neanderthals went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, so cloning one from recovered DNA would be impressive enough of a feat — but what about something from 65 million years ago? Dr. Kaku addresses this, admitting that cloning a dinosaur won’t be as easy as cloning a Neanderthal or a mammoth (which wouldn’t very “easy” to begin with) — but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

    Dr. Kaku notes that proteins found within the soft tissues of recovered dinosaur femurs resemble those of chickens, frogs, and reptiles — confirm the theory of their relation. He posits that through the use of a supercomputer, a genetic sequence could be produced, which would create theoretical potential for cloning through epigenetics.
    http://www.malaysiandigest.com/techn...k-to-life.html
    Resurrecting Neanderthals would be redundant. Just travel through any large city's urban blighted areas and there are plenty of Neanderthals roaming the streets. Or go to any ME country and you'll find them roaming free in their natural habitats. We don't need any more of them.
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    Welcome to Pleistocene Park: Russian scientists reveal plan to restore part of Arctic Siberia to its Ice Age condition (complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz4ax5d7uPs
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    Could Frozen Seeds Save the Future? Scientists Bring a 32,000-year-old Seed Back to Life
    http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...763?nopaging=1
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    I do not like when humans want to play God. They died for a reason..........
    While no one ever listens to me,
    I am constantly being told to be quiet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by l921428x View Post
    I do not like when humans want to play God. They died for a reason..........
    It wasn't their fault for going extinct. More like bad luck (it's happened many times in the past, and can happen again).

    Those pesky asteroids keep showing up from time to time and messing things up all around....
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    A Mammoth Task: How Do We Decide Which Species to Resurrect?
    http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...surrect-008088

    I suspect Japan will be first at this stuff and will roll out a few mammoths, they're into all sorts of crazyness.
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    Possible dinosaur DNA find sparks Jurassic Park debate
    According to Alida Bailleul, a paleontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who led the study, the scientists may have identified traces of genetic material in an exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur fossil — fueling fantasies that mankind might one day be able to resurrect the ancient reptiles.

    The specimen, which comes from the skull of a 74-80 million-year-old baby duck-billed dinosaur from North America called Hypacrosaurus, appears to contain fossilized cell nuclei and chromosomes within preserved bone cartilage, the report said.

    “I couldn’t believe it, my heart almost stopped beating,” Bailleul said of the first time she observed the fossil under a powerful microscope.
    https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/possib...c-park-debate/
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    I hope they don't figure out how to "Jurassic Park" because they will find that with the dinosaurs will come viruses that make Covid-19 look like a walk in the park.

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