Thursday, 25 June 2015

Science: Is “de-extinction” possible?

BBC.com - Future

Bringing back species that died out long ago is not impossible. What would happen if we tried it?

Will we one day walk with dinosaurs or mammoths? The idea isn't completely beyond the realms of possibility.
However, as this video from The Verge points out, it’s not quite how the Jurassic Park films portray it. In the original story, scientists extracted DNA from a fossil, stitched the broken pieces together and used it to fertilise the egg of a modern creature. It would be feasible, except for the fact that dinosaur DNA is so old, it will have disintegrated beyond repair.






Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150619-is-de-extinction-possible