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Originally Posted by czarina
that's actually very cool. Do you think they'll move on to dinosaurs if they're successful with the mammoth?
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highly unlikely at this point. the only reason they can do it with the mammoth at all is because they grabbed it from a frozen specimen, the only dna they have from dinosaurs is pretty broken down and missing a lot of data. Even if they have complete mammoth dna they still need an elephant uterus for it to grow, what would they use for a brontosaurus? an Alligator? not a very close match either way would be my guess.
Until they can figure out a way to extract complete dna from their bones I doubt it would be possible.