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Tooth_and_Claw
i read somewhere that they found a piece of amber with a mosquito that had a drop of dinasaure blood in it and they implanted it into another animal

its probably a lie i read on the internet
Mosasaurs
yeah it would be a lie somone how see's Jp to much
Tooth_and_Claw
QUOTE(Mosasaurs @ Jul 5 2006, 05:46 PM) [snapback]1258245[/snapback]

yeah it would be a lie somone how see's Jp to much



i dont get what u wrote
aquatus1
The idea came from a book written by Michaerl Crichton, which was later made into a series of movies titled Jurassic Park. The idea is that dinosaur blood drunk by the trapped mosquitos provided the DNA to clone the new breed. As it turns out, no DNA that old has ever been found, much less the fully intact strings that would be required for successful cloning. Don't forget, mosquitos didn't just drink blood; they also digested it.

The oldest ancient DNA fragments found are from around 400,000 years old, from plants that were found frozen in the siberian tundra. The next oldest is only about 100,000 years old. Dinosaurs are from millions upon millions of years ago.
Tooth_and_Claw
QUOTE(aquatus1 @ Jul 5 2006, 05:56 PM) [snapback]1258264[/snapback]

The idea came from a book written by Michaerl Crichton, which was later made into a series of movies titled Jurassic Park. The idea is that dinosaur blood drunk by the trapped mosquitos provided the DNA to clone the new breed. As it turns out, no DNA that old has ever been found, much less the fully intact strings that would be required for successful cloning. Don't forget, mosquitos didn't just drink blood; they also digested it.

The oldest ancient DNA fragments found are from around 400,000 years old, from plants that were found frozen in the siberian tundra. The next oldest is only about 100,000 years old. Dinosaurs are from millions upon millions of years ago.


thats really helpful betta than ppl just writing " its not true" thanks thumbsup.gif
aquatus1
No problem wink2.gif
Jack_of_Blades
I saw on a speacial tilted "The Real Jurassic Park" that a few
collage students DID find DNA out of insect amber, but the
DNA was serverly damaged and their was no way to tell if
it even did belong to a dinosaur or the insect
^SolidSnake^
Scientists were actually really looking into this after the films release weren't they? Shows how intelligent scientists are if a untrained guy writing a book can think of better ideas than they can.
frogfish
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Scientists were actually really looking into this after the films release weren't they

No...the idea for JP was actually taken from science...

It's basic forensics turned prehistoric...
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