• threelonmusketeers
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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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      1 year ago

      You’d love to? Are you a cloner?

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          There are so many tar pits. Let’s get to dredging(humanity, not me).