Bringing dinosaurs back to life?

[LucidDreamGod]

I know this kind of thing seems very impossible, I've done a bit of searching on the internet myself years ago and came to the conclusion that it was impossible, but I found this article on digg a short while ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...e-chicken.html There was also a documentary about it on the discovery channel some time ago, I can't find any links to watch it though, I saw a torrent, but I can't use those. But yeah so what do you all think, is this possible maybe? Maybe it's just me and the fact that I've been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since I was a very young child, and it would be the one thing that would make my life complete to see a living dinosaur in my life time. Though the article admits it might take 100 years or so.

[Catbus]

Fucking a, that's wicked. I figure it'll probably happen in the future, I just hope maybe it'll happen before I die.

[drewmandan]

Actual dinosaurs - impossible. This would require a living or at least recently deceased dinosaur. Even a frozen one would suffice, but that seems incredibly unlikely, to the point where I would say 'impossible'. Even if they were brought back, they would swiftly succumb to any one of the ubiquitous pathogens and bacteria that evolved since the K/T event. Now, a fake, or simulated, dinosaur may be possible. Using existing birds and lizards and tossing in a few genes that they think would fit, scientists could make what they think is a dinosaur, or something close. But that's cheating, isn't it? They couldn't possibly learn anything from it, because they're providing all the specifications right from the start.

[LucidFlanders]

Yo dis is mah t-rex n i cal him Killa! He gards mah hous, so be stayin way, ya heyah?

[Eos]

Yea, I watched the show on the science channel. They found that birds carry the genes to look like dinosaurs its just these genes are turned off when they are in the embryo. They also found DNA in the dinosaurs by putting a substance which made the DNA of its tissue turn to life or something like that.

[victorybear]

Actual dinosaurs - impossible. This would require a living or at least recently deceased dinosaur. Even a frozen one would suffice, but that seems incredibly unlikely, to the point where I would say 'impossible'. Even if they were brought back, they would swiftly succumb to any one of the ubiquitous pathogens and bacteria that evolved since the K/T event. Now, a fake, or simulated, dinosaur may be possible. Using existing birds and lizards and tossing in a few genes that they think would fit, scientists could make what they think is a dinosaur, or something close. But that's cheating, isn't it? They couldn't possibly learn anything from it, because they're providing all the specifications right from the start. Yeah, drewmandan's right. The DNA can't usually hold together after 65 million years. It would be close to impossible to bring the dinosaurs back using that method. Although... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX3QCaqLtJ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtfMI...eature=related

[Everlong]

OH CRAP Then the dinosaurs will all break loose and kill us all!

[Man of Shred]

The Jurassic park way sounds the most plausible way to me. There actually is ancient bugs preserved in amber from tree sap. They've even found different species of aphids and such.

[Sandform]

I thought mitochondria could stand the test of time. Well atleast make a passing grade... 38,000 year old bone was dug up that let them sequence it for the hairy people from the past.

[drewmandan]

38,000 year old bone was dug up that let them sequence it for the hairy people from the past. 38,000 years 65,000,000 years

[skysaw]

I just saw on a NatGeo special that they have very recently discovered the first soft tissue from inside of some dinosaur fossils. It certainly changes things, but building a dinosaur is probably still many orders of magnitude too difficult to pull off.