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Please do not 'Jurassic Park' this thing back to life. Kthxbai.

• monocasa 9y ago
  DNA has a half life of only 521 years, so that avenue is unlikely to bear fruit (or dinosaurs, or scropi-ders) anyway.
  • dogma1138 9y ago
    http://www.nature.com/news/first-horses-arose-4-million-years-ago-1.13261 http://www.nature.com/news/first-horses-arose-4-million-year... Methods for extracting aDNA are always improving, oldest full genome sequencing is now over half a million years old.
    • dkersten 9y ago
      If they artificially recreate the DNA somehow and then, again, somehow, bring these things to life, may as well edit the DNA and make them a lot larger. Now, that would be horrifying.
      • dogma1138 9y ago
        We don’t really know how big they could get mulching species can grow nearly in orders of magnitude.