• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Even though you saw the movies again and not me, just thinking about those movies makes me more excited for cloning dinosaurs.

        I honestly wonder why we haven’t at this point cloned more extinct animals yet.

        I looked into it, apparently we are not good enough at it yet.

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        1 year ago

        Just put em on some island. Just don’t clone flying monsters or swimming monsters

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      1 year ago

      I’d love to, but the half-life of environmental DNA is too short to fully reconstruct their genomes with our current technology. The most promising route would probably be to tinker with the genomes of extant crocodiles and birds to come up with a “close guess” of what dinosaur genomes may have looked like.

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          Haha, probably not me personally, as I have neither the facilities nor the expertise. I should have said “I’d love us to”, referring to humanity in general. Dinosaurs will be close to impossible to clone. Woolly Mammoths should be theoretically possible, but still very difficult. Some easier (though less charismatic) targets would be something like the Christmas Island rat or the Gastric Brooding Frog.