Real-life Jurassic Park?

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Charlemagne · #1 Post by **Charlemagne** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:08 pm

I was browsing MSNBC today and found this astonishing story. Paleontologists in the U.S. have discovered 70 million year old soft tissue inside a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil! How amazing is that?!?! I guess the next step is to see if any DNA was preserved as well. Who knows how long until we can see what a real T. rex looks like? And more importantly, if it tastes like chicken.

Radiant · #2 Post by **Radiant** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:32 pm

Well, it goes to show that Michael Crighton does excellent research before writing his books.

Vildern · #3 Post by **Vildern** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:40 pm

I read no DNA was preserved. You'll never see a real purple Denver (or Barney for that matter).

Alias · #4 Post by **Alias** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:41 pm

Thats very realistic to believe there is loads of Soft tissue inside sandstone from other insects and animals that dont walk the earth today.

Charlemagne · #5 Post by **Charlemagne** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:33 pm

Radiant wrote:Well, it goes to show that Michael Crighton does excellent research before writing his books.

Um, I'm pretty sure that getting dino DNA from flies preserved in amber is still science fiction.

MusicallyInspired · #6 Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:35 pm

Wow. And it's not just on any news site. It's on MSN.Com. And there's a video.

TakariFreak · #7 Post by **TakariFreak** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:01 am

It'd be damn near impossible to create a REAL T-rex from that, even if there WAS DNA. In order to clone something, you need some kind of a "host" for the DNA, which has to be the SAME species as the original DNA (or extremely close, like, the closeness of a horse and a donkey). I don't even know if they know how to clone egg laying creatures at all yet, all I know about cloning had to do with creatures that give live brith.

Not to mention, Cloning has a VERY low sucess rate, and clones have a number of problems associated with cloning, since certian things that happen natually during the whole conception process do no happen when the DNA is "combined" artificially.

Not to mention, it's not a good idea, ethicly, or practically. It's not a wise idea to let one of the worlds most deadly preditors roam the earth once more, no matter HOW contained it might be.

New England Patriots · #8 Post by **New England Patriots** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:17 am

Although I am Mostly a Football Fan, Dinosaurs Amaze me among belief.
I heard that Scientists found 20 foot long arms in the Gobi desert and are trying to find the lost "Dinochirus". I Find this simply amazing!
I mean Picture a Dinosaur with 20 foot long arms! Thats Over 10 Times the Size of a Tyrannosaurus. But To find a tissue of a dinosaur must be difficult

and you never know what a Tyrannosaur Might look like....I mean it could be hairy for all we know

PotatoSlayer · #9 Post by **PotatoSlayer** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:24 am

well they were reptiles so i doubt they were hairy

MusicallyInspired · #10 Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:27 am

That's a topic of debate though. Some people say they're reptiles, other say their birds.

PotatoSlayer · #11 Post by **PotatoSlayer** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:35 am

good point, but birds have feathers, i've never seen a hairy bird

New England Patriots · #12 Post by **New England Patriots** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:03 am

heh, a hairy bird..But yes, Scientists have thought of old Dinsaurs like Velociraptor for example, to have actually evolved into birds. And If you look at Sir Charles Darwins Theory of evolution, it just might be true.

Quest For Glory Fan · #13 Post by **Quest For Glory Fan** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:20 am

reminds me of the eld game EVO for Super nintendo. I think all questions were answered in that masterpeice.

Charlemagne · #14 Post by **Charlemagne** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:33 am

Where are Meerbat and Brainiac when you need them? Meerbat's a biologist and I think Brainiac is a geneticist. They could help clear up some of these questions. Personally, I remember seeing fossilized imprints of dinosaur skin somewhere. It looked scaly, like a lizard's skin. Definitely not hairy. Though that probably wouldn't preclude dinosaurs from evolving into birds.

TakariFreak wrote:Not to mention, it's not a good idea, ethicly, or practically. It's not a wise idea to let one of the worlds most deadly preditors roam the earth once more, no matter HOW contained it might be.

Aw, but I wanna know if dinosaur tastes like chicken! Seriously though, I think you're taking my attempt at humour much too literally. But just to ease your mind you should know that this evening I saw the discoverer of the fossil on the evening news announce "we are not cloning dinosaurs in our lab". It's all good.

Blackthorne519 · #15 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:58 am

I have T-Rex. She's my girlfriend.

Bt

Charlemagne · #16 Post by **Charlemagne** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:18 am

And you're lucky she doesn't read these forums. Or does she?

Angelus3K · #17 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:07 am

Quest For Glory Fan wrote:reminds me of the eld game EVO for Super nintendo. I think all questions were answered in that masterpeice.

I LOVED that game!!

Blackthorne519 · #18 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:22 am

Charlemagne wrote:And you're lucky she doesn't read these forums. Or does she?

Hell no! She'd eat me like I was a Galimimus!

Bt

Alias · #19 Post by **Alias** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:31 pm

I think it is possible for them to clone a T-rex, they already have a complete bone set of what the animal looks like and there shouldent be THAT much of an issue, its a matter of how long its going to take, and what if the T-Rex breaks lose once they clone him? :x ;)

Radiant · #20 Post by **Radiant** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:39 pm

Hey cool, more E.V.O. fans! Say, does any of you know where the secret levels are in the jurassic age? I know of the bird transform but my progress still says I'm missing a number of levels...

Charlemagne · #21 Post by **Charlemagne** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:47 pm

Isn't amazing how Angelus and Co. manage to find a way to discuss video games in almost every thread?

Angelus3K · #22 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:51 pm

Charlemagne wrote:Isn't amazing how Angelus and Co. manage to find a way to discuss video games in almost every thread?

Thats what we're here for aint it ;)

Uhanimar · #23 Post by **Uhanimar** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:33 am

Yeah i heard about this whole thing. JP is a great book. It's kinda sad that they had to find TR and not Triceratops.

New England Patriots · #24 Post by **New England Patriots** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:28 am

Depending on what Jurassic park you're talking about, they do find one.
But finding a Tricerotops, you'd be lucky, Safewise, if you found a Chasmosaurus or a Torosaurus, you'd be in some big trouble buddy.
But its not offen you find dinosaurs

Carry on

rugged · #25 Post by **rugged** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:14 am

How do any of us average people even know that Dinosaurs existed ?? Obviously it is highly likely they did but hey it would make a pretty good conspiracy. Just a bunch of scientist getting rich off the "Dinosaur theory"

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