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Bringing back dinosaurs is very different from bringing back wooly mammoths. For one, we have living descendants (similar in size & general arrangement of organs, I assume) of mammoths that we can study. & we have flash-frozen mammoth carcasses, right down to the food they were eating/digesting/contents of organs/large & small intestines (&, I assume, the immediate environment they were found in – their food, in other words.) So - assuming we took tissue samples - we have the actual DNA, blood, bone, organs we can examine.
None of this is true for dinosaurs, TMK. The dinos went extinct 201 million years ago, the mammoths vanished 4,000 years ago – a vast difference in time, & we don’t have nearly the detailed information nor good matches for what dinosaurs used to look like, nor eat, nor their environment(s) today. So it would be a tremendous stretch to bring back dinosaurs - & it would likely have to be a step-by-step process. First back engineer the plants, then the smaller insects & animals in their environment, & then back engineer & release a few herbivores, & work your way up. The whole process could take centuries, if you’re cautious. Less, if you’re not – but the collapse of an ecosystem would set back the work by a lot.
It would be an interesting project, & I'm sure we'd learn a lot from the attempt. But there are a lot more pressing issues in biology - bees, bats, birds, fish (especially food stocks), coral, cleaning up the water & air & soil, studying the impacts of microscopic fibers, particles, etc. on living tissue - especially lungs, especially infants & children. & looking to the future, how to travel in deep space for long periods of time - radiation issues, or radiation palliative issues, hibernation (or something similar - suspended animation?) It's a very long list.
I would not; the Mammoth was around and went extinct.
Now maybe and that is a big maybe, if MAN caused their extinction, but since we did not cause their extinction then no. Nature selected for extinction.
Are we trying to make Jurassic Park a reality.
Wasn't early man to blame for the extinction of the mammoth?
They might be able to resurrect small dinosaurs (up to bear or maybe elephant size for air breathers) ), but don't get your hopes up for sustainable large dinosaurs.
The atmosphere used to contain a higher percentage of oxygen, which is the primary limiting factor in animal size. More oxygen = more fast large animals (T-Rex, etc), less oxygen =smaller animals with some speed (lions and smaller) and some medium size yet pretty slow animals (elephant, rhino, hippo, etc).
Maybe they could keep them in an artificial environment under a dome.
Frankly, I wouldn't want sea dinos out there, like the Megalodon or older models, but I also suspect that the sea water carries less O2 as well in this period given the seeming modern limits on sea breathing animal size.
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Not Jurassic, & hardly a park
