[b]SCIENTISTS CLONE DINOSAUR![/b]

GAINESVILLE, FL – Scientists at the University of Florida have successfully cloned a dinosaur, a spokesman from the university said yesterday.

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this is the greatest news ever and my first reaction was john hammond`s dream is becoming real.

YAY My dream is coming true but i want more dinosaurs to be cloned!!!!

This stinks of fake.

Haha.
You actually believe this? For one thing, if this were real, it'd be all over the news, unless it were "top secret" or whatever (and it's not; the internet is the absolute WORST place to put something secret). For another, they say that they extracted DNA from "preserved Apatosaurus fossils", which is just plain retarded; fossilized bones are essentially rocks. The calcium and DNA is gone, so what they're saying is impossible. Besides, they can't really clone anything worthwhile without frozen or, even better, live cells. 65 million years is just too long.

Also, considering that the most recent news on the side contains "NASA confirms alien invasion", "Dolphin with arms prepares for battle", and "Peta to produce porn videos"... Yeahhhhhhh...

Nightmare99 wrote:
Also, considering that the most recent news on the side contains "NASA confirms alien invasion", "Dolphin with arms prepares for battle", and "Peta to produce porn videos"... Yeahhhhhhh...

Outta all that bs, that PETA one is actually true. Nasty stuff.

your wrong fossils have dna in them!!!!

*you're

Fossils don't preserve DNA in order to let us recreate dinosaurs. Scientists were struggling, and failed so far, to clone Thylacine, which is quite recently extinct animal and we have some preserved soft tissues of it. They are unable to bring back dodo's, moa's and elephant birds. And you think they'll find a miracle DNA in the dinosaur fossils? xD

Maybe they can grind up the bones and extract the 'liddle DNA pieces outta those suckers.

Thus far researchers have discovered soft tissue samples from dinosaur bones, but it is unclear whether DNA -- which is easily destroyed by water-based reactions -- could have survived for millions of years. Back in 1994 Science carried an article [abstract] by microbiologist Scott Woodward of Brigham Young University, who claimed to have found dinosaur DNA in a bone specimen. However, the claim was questioned and has been heavily criticized in discussion since.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=25302

gropher's right. Mabey the scientist cant find much dna of a dodo bird but i guess no one is right about cloning

MrGorsh wrote:*you're

Fossils don't preserve DNA in order to let us recreate dinosaurs. Scientists were struggling, and failed so far, to clone Thylacine, which is quite recently extinct animal and we have some preserved soft tissues of it. They are unable to bring back dodo's, moa's and elephant birds. And you think they'll find a miracle DNA in the dinosaur fossils? xD

In Fact, DNA is thought to live for 50,000 years (at least as partial strands), but decays soon after. So unless someone finds a live dinosaur, or one from the Ice age, dinosaurs won't be cloned in our lifetime, and perhaps never.

Considering the fact that DNA has a half-life of 521 years (unless I'm very much mistaken), half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on. As if it weren't already hard enough to obtain a large set to work with...

Gopher wrote:Considering the fact that DNA has a half-life of 521 years (unless I'm very much mistaken), half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on. As if it weren't already hard enough to obtain a large set to work with...

No, I'm veryuch mistaken. It's been a while since I read the site I got my information from, and details were fuzzy, so all I remembered was it lived for 5-0- something

Gopher wrote:Maybe they can grind up the bones and extract the 'liddle DNA pieces outta those suckers.

Thus far researchers have discovered soft tissue samples from dinosaur bones, but it is unclear whether DNA -- which is easily destroyed by water-based reactions -- could have survived for millions of years. Back in 1994 Science carried an article [abstract] by microbiologist Scott Woodward of Brigham Young University, who claimed to have found dinosaur DNA in a bone specimen. However, the claim was questioned and has been heavily criticized in discussion since.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=25302

Grind up.. liddle... what?
No, I hope I'm misreading something else as extracting proteins via fossilized bones.

IDK, the post was a while ago, but I think I was making a reference to the JP book

NUUHHH