• Question: will dinosaurs ever be created in a lab do you think?

    Asked by 635curm25 to Daniel, Fiona, Hazel, Jacque, K, Matthew on 5 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Matthew Beaney

      Matthew Beaney answered on 5 Mar 2018:

      No sadly not. Firstly the DNA is too damaged – we can’t fill it the gaps like they do in Jurassic Park with frog DNA as we don’t know what is missing. Even if we had the right DNA sequences – we can’t give birth to a dinosaur except with the correct dinosaur egg – reptile/bird eggs won’t do the trick!

    • Photo: Hazel Gibson

      Hazel Gibson answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Unless you count the fact that birds today are the descendants of dinosaurs (specifically the theropod group which included velociraptors) and you can grow -birds- in a lab, then no. I’m definitely with Matthew on this one!

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