I don't know if you guys remember the movie "Jurassic Park". It was actually one of my best movies that I still watch today (even after 10+ years). The Jurassic period is a period when dinosaurs and majestic unknown creatures once lived on this very planet. Earth at that time had only one supercontinent called Pangaea (Pan=all, all the continents were connected). In the movie, they gave this theory about the mosquito withdrawing blood from a dinosaur and then get fossilized. Scientists then extracted blood from the fossilized mosquito and amplified this DNA/clone the cells to get the actual dinosaur we witnessed in the movie.
Well , this was in the movie. What about real life? Scientists found this mosquito long after the production of the movie and were curious whether it is possible to withdraw this blood accumulated in its body, (is the DNA still intact/damaged, is there any blood inside its body in the first place?) They actually found blood inside its body because high levels of iron proves the presence of blood. Unfortunately, the problem was with the fossilized blood and the DNA was critically damaged. There is still hopes that they could successfully recover a functional DNA that could be amplified! What do you think? Personally, I want to see this happen. Maybe I can have an interesting adventure just like in the movie! Thank you Science! As long as I won't get eaten by a velociraptor!
Now seeing a dinosaur in real life would be cool, but I'm not to sure it would be a great idea. The process that could be used to bring back these long extinct creatures could possibly be helpful in boosting the numbers of close to extinct animals and plants we have now.
ReplyDeleteI believe we have plenty of deadly creatures walking around, why add more? Plus we have plenty of dinosaurs roaming the world today, maybe we should just enjoy those lol.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my all time FAVORITE movies! I think it would be awesome to see a T-Rex but not a velociraptor! If we learned anything from we know that they are too smart and can take over the world. Ok maybe not but they were highly intelligent hunters! If anyone successfully creates a 'Jurassic Park' I will be sure to move far far away! haha Nice last blog! :)
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