• Question: will we be able to bring dinosaurs back to life one day?!!!!!!!

    Asked by james-peters pokemaster to Jillian on 18 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      It depends on a lot of things! If we want to bring back a proper dinosaur, we’ll need to know exactly how they were built – and for that we need DNA. DNA is really bad at fossilizing in bones, so it’s been hard to extract – that said, it could just be that we haven’t looked very hard, since we’re starting to find tendon and what looks like blood cells that stayed preserved within the dinosaur bones! So that’s pretty exciting, but a long way off from engineering a dinosaur.

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