Would It Ever Be Possible to Bring Back Dinosaurs?

Jack Horner

, a paleontologist at the Montana State University, Bozeman, and curator of the Museum of the Rockies, replies: "We are a long, long way from being able to reconstruct the DNA of extinct creatures, and in fact it may be impossible to resurrect the DNA of dinosaurs or other long-extinct forms.

Can Dinosaur be recovered?

Without access to dinosaur DNA, researchers can't clone true dinosaurs. New fossils are being uncovered from the ground every day. However, while this can provide important evidence of a species' form, its organic material has long since disappeared.

How long until we can recreate dinosaurs?

Read the original article. Bottom line: We can't recreate dinosaurs from their DNA because the DNA no longer exists. DNA disintegrates in about 7 million years, and dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.