Scientists crush your dream of cloning a dinosaur
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
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Are there any storage devices that can last longer than 1.5 million years?
Well, how about genetical reverse engineering?...
Why can't we collect everything we know about dinosaurs and build a DNA based on this?
Isn't building a species from DNA still beyond our current capabilities?
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