• Question: will there ever be more dinosaurs

    Asked by jessh to Adam, Catherine, Leila, Nazim on 22 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      Oh I wish there were! Although maybe not the giant city-crushing, man-eating types, but cute tameable ones…

      Short answer: no 🙁
      Longer answer: To resurrect an extinct species, you’d need it’s DNA, like they used in Jurassic Park. But so far, we know of no way of preserving DNA for more than about 100,000 years. The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, so we really have no hope of getting their DNA.

      The only way we could get them is if they evolved again, but then they wouldn’t be true dinosaurs, but a new group of fierce lizards…

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      Only if Richard Attenborough funds a dinosaur theme park 🙁

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