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  • i can tell you that it is genetically possible and is projected in the next few decades or so by reverse genetic engineering of birds, the closest relatives to dinosaurs
  • Depends on what you mean. If you mean in the sense of Jurassic Park then no. And it will almost certainly stay that way as DNA doesn't survive the fossilisation process. Nor is the molecule itself capable of surviving for millions of years. The science in Jurassic Park is enjoyable but junk. However, as the other answer stated, birds are descended from dinosaurs and carry many relics of their evolutionary ancestry in their genome. For example, they still carry the genes that permit teeth to grow. They haven't actually lost this DNA, it's just been silenced. Not too long ago this gene was unsilenced, in 2006 I think, and chickens with reptile-like teeth developed. I think another group has managed to develop the tail and I've got a feeling (but don't quote me!) that feather's have also been retrograded to scale-like structures. And all this without adding anything to the birds, just reactivating genetic pathways long-since silenced. However, it is not true to say that birds carry the genome of dinosaurs and undoubtedly certain genes will have been lost forever. So I agree that we will probably reverse engineer a dinosaur-like creature at some point but I doubt that it will actually be a resurrection of a long-extinct dinosaur species. It will essentially be a new dinosaur.
  • i hope so i miss my fat wife

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