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Originally Posted by fifthofnovember
Even a mosquito, huh? I'm no scientist, but it seems to me a 100 ton creature might last a little longer than a mosquito.
But if they are, as you say, just trying to create a Frankenstein that looks like a dinosaur, that is worthless for research, and that is the kind of weird science that I dispise.
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I think you are misunderstanding me.
When an animal dies, and its body is left to the weather, the DNA breaks down and is gone, completely gone in a twenty thousand years or so. Even if that animal froze to death the DNA does not stick around much longer. Back in the late 80s and early 90s they found some mosquitoes from the era that had been preserved in amber, they thought that maybe if one of these mosquitoes would have had a blood meal from a dinosaur just before it died, that maybe the DNA from that dinosaur would have stuck around. It probably lasted a bit longer, but still broke down to its base pairs and was totally useless, basically as if it was not even there.
And yes you are correct, even using the method that may work to create a living dinosaur, it would not act like a dinosaur, would not have the actual color of a dinosaur, it would only look like one. But maybe, if they can do it, it may open up more feasable ideas later as science evolves, so maybe, unlikely, way down the road, another method may come about.
But the fact of the matter here is no matter how we make it, it would only be the way it is because of traits we choose to give it. You can not recreate an actual animal without its DNA.