What kinds of technology would we need to bring dinosaurs back to life?
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It is impossible as far as we can tell. Jurassic Park was a story. If anyone has been able to obtain dinosaur DNA, and that is still very much in dispute, the amount the have found is miniscule. Trying to reconstruct a dinosaur from what we have is literally like trying to physically reconstruct New York City from half a page ripped out of a telephone directory. And that is not an exaggeration. We have next to no genetic information, we have absolutely no information about the way that information was configured. We have no information about how to incubate the creature if we did create it. \n\nThose aren’t problems that can be overcome by technology. It’s not a case of retrieving the information somewhere that it’s hidden as with the human genome project. The information simply doesn’t exist. We have absolutely no way of ever getting that information ever again. \n\nThe only vaguely plausible method would be to evolutionarily ‘regress’ living descendants of dinosaurs such as birds. That’s so far outside our ability at the moment that it’s almost pure science fiction, but it isn’t actually physically impossible the way that using fragmentary DNA is.
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Whoa! slow down, there is fossil evidence a transition from reptiles and birds. Most famously Archeopteryx with reptilian skull, teeth, digits, claws, vertebrae, sternum, ribs, pelvis, tail, and mainly unfused bones, and a few bird traits like a wishbone, wings and feathers!! In older sediments, there are theropod dinosaurs with skeletal similarities to Archeopteryx. In younger sediments, there are several fossils with more birds-like traits, such as Sinornis and Shenzhouraptor and dozens more (wikipedia "fossil birds").\n\nFossils of scales and feathers are very very rarely preserved. Imprints of the Archeopteryx feathers are only preserved because the fossils are embedded in very rare, very fine limestone that used to be used in lithography. It is unreasonable to demand fossil evidence of a transition between scales and feathers. That said, there are several theropod fossils with feathers that have been recently discovered in a fine Chinese deposit, things like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx and Beipiaosaurus.\n\nBut sure, every detail of the the transition from reptiles to birds isn't documented. Other than demanding an excessive amount of evidence, I really don't know what arguments you can use, I don't think there are any true ones. But you might find some convincing sounding ones on Creationist propaganda websites. It depends on your audience.
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Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suffered a catastrophic extinction, which ended their dominance on land. Modern birds are considered to be the direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs.
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hey check out this link,it will really help:\n\nhttp://www.extinctanimal.com/prehistoric.htm
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dinosaurs\nbiotic or abiotic light, sweet crude
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You'd have to build a time machine and go back a few billion years. Sadly organisms like amoeba are too small and soft to leave fossil records, the best we have to go on is evidence of the chemical reactions microbes perform.
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I think you would have to make a time machine and go back to the Jurassic era. You probably won't find any family members from that time(I believe you can get in that way). Look for Fred(tell him I sent you), he'll be able to get you in..
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A. Could we have real dinosaurs somewhere?\nAs ttocsewol pointed out, the biggest problem of cryptozoology is that there is not enough space to hide thousands of dinosaurs. If there are fewer, the species is quite vulnerable to extinction.\nOne exception: there is enough space in the ocean. We have just recently discovered some pretty large shark species. However, this means that the dinosaur in question has to be giving birth rather than laying eggs, much like Ichtyosaurus dis. However, marine reptiles of Mesosoic era (Plesiosaurs, Mesozaurs, Ichtyosaurs and so on) are not dinosaurs in strict sense of the word, but are distantly replated to them.\n\nB. Living descendants and relatives of dinosaurs.\nTurtles, crocodiles, lizards and other surviving reptiles are also quite removed relatives of dinosaurs. Birds, however, are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs.\nBe careful around that chicken.
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Dinosaurs did evolve, that is why they were so successful for such a long period of time. However, it is very difficult for species to recover from catastrophic population declines. Remember also that the major extinction event that occured 65 mya was not actually the only mass extinction event that took place during the time of dinosaurs and mammal-like reptiles and that this extinction event wasnt actually as catastrophic as some of the others (the P-T event wiped out 95% of all life!). What instead took place was that small mammals held a niche which evolved into the many mammalian species we have today. \nIf you follow the geological time line from the tertiary period to late cretacious you will actually notice evolution occuring throughout dinosaur species. Dinosaurs diverged from large lumbering archosaurs into saurapods and therapods and adapted to a range of environments. And, of course, therapod characteristics are evident in modern day birds (this is still debated, not proven, though very strong evidence in support). \nI would highly doubt that humans, without technological advancements, medicine etc etc would be able to survive for as long as the dinosaurs did, or to withstand as many mass extinction events. Look back as far as the cambrian explosion and you'll see that all life has come a long way!
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There are numerous difficulties with the Jurassic Park scenario.\n\n1.  We do not have any way to get a complete set of dinosaur DNA.  The movie/book addressed this by mixing in DNA from other species.  They picked an obscure species of African frog so they could have a forced plot point later.  (Dumb, Mr. Chrichton, dumb, especially when you could have used parthenogenesis to have the same plot twist!)  This doesn't really work, though.  You could mix in other things, and you might get something close to a dinosaur, but more than likely you wouldn't.\n\nGetting dinosaur DNA at all is rare.  Insects fossilized in amber do not have a good supply of functional Dino DNA despite the film/book.  Blood drinkers digest their food very quickly, while being covered in amber takes a while.  They've digested your sample!  Even if they somehow didn't, the bacteria inside them will corrupt the samples.\n\nBut, suppose, despite all this, you found some intact blood in an insect trapped in amber.  Okay, what is it?  Blood drinkers aren't very picky about where they get blood.  Is your sample a T. rex?  Diplodocus?  More than likely it isn't from a dinosaur at all, they did not have the world all to themselves!  And you can't really tell without sequencing the DNA, which destroys it, oops!  Can't clone that!  Wouldn't work anyway, we have no T. rex DNA  to compare it too!  Okay, so the only way to see what we've got is to actually clone it.  But we can't, because...\n\n2.  No mother.  Organisms do not come to term on their own.  Even egg laying species need to have the proper envirionment for the embryo during egg development.  Without close dinosaur relevatives, we have nothing to create the eggs nor anything to study the egg development to make them ourselves.  But, by point #1 above, we don't know what our sample is unless we sequence it, and that would destroy it!  If we sequenced it, we could tell if it was a mammal or a reptile or what, but that's not a specific enough mother.  The whole thing bogs down to an impractical mess.\n\nIt's possible that future technological advances will get around some of these problems, though I cannot imagine how.  I expect time travel will let us see dinosaurs before genetic engineering.\n\nAnd, no, I don't really think time travel is happening anytime soon either!
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Never heard of a one-clawed dinosaur... one that has a single big claw is velociraptor. Don't know too much about the "hopping" part either, because dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years and we can never know for sure.
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This link I'll provide has a graphic of the Jurassic time period.
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Crocadiles...\n\nSupposing that an impact was the cause of the dinosaur's demise, it would not have been an imediate death.  \n\nAn impact would have thrown dirt into the upper reaches of the atmosphere.  The Sky would have been dark day gray for a long time, and the Earth would have grown cold for years...\n\nThose animals that needed the most food would have died first, and in that order of sucession until the only survivors would have been the small scavengers.  The dinosaurs that could feed on the starved carcasses of the dead.\n\nAnd so the decendents of those survivors have had to continue to evolve to survive this colder and crueller Earth.  \n\nThe would have needed to develop an insulating layer...  Some will tell you the Birds evolved from those survivors, and if they are right then those feathers are a post-Impact survival trait...\n\nThe question has to be if there was an intelligent races of Dinosaurs...  I mean, if we suffered an equally destructive impact today, we wouldn't have the forewarning to see it coming even now...  How much of humanity would survive?  Forty Years of darkness and artic cold...
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Thye lived a long time ago, and the closest living relative to the dinosaurs is the crocodile.  Crocodiles have remained unchanged for 1000's of years.
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http://www.bibleandscience.com/science/dinosaurs.htm explains everything.
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Special effects and music.\nLots and lots of music.\nThey've been doing this for a century.\nTechnology has really progerssed with the fake flesh part too.
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Try a museum of natural science.  You can find all kinds of fossils there.