Should we re-create dinosaurs from birds ??

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There is a fellow named Jack Horner (if I'm not mistaken) who thinks that this can and should be done. Basically, by reversing evolution we prove that it happened.

I say yes.

What say you?

Yes, I wish to hunt a male Tyrannosaurus rex.

Let's start with something simpler, like a dodo or a thylacine.

Sounds like a wasteful Government grant project.. most likely costing more then a public health care option. It has no real benefits for society. Sure, go for it.

Let's do it.

If it really was possible why wouldn't we?

Of course not! Haven't you read/watched Jurassic Park?

Depends on what type of dinosaur you want to recreate. I think they should start with a small dinosaur and then work their way up.

My thoughts exactly.

Goren's suggestion makes much more sense to me. Bring back something that mankind killed off fairly recently, and which might still have an existing eco-system to fit into again. Dinosaurs are fascinating, but their time came and went, the entire earth has moved on. I think birds are a wonderful evolutionary development for our time.

I think it's best to let nature take care of nature and not interfere with it any more than is necessary and reasonable. Since the demise of dinosaurs, whole new eco-systems and natural balancing processes (where we don't disrupt them) have developed. Bringing back dinosaurs would wreak havoc on that newer balance, and doesn't make sense to me.

Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.

Sounds dangerous to me. Plus, it would probably cost a lot of money.

I second this. Hopefully they won't allow them to do it.

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It does sound dangerous, as for habitat, the Amazon would do, hot and green. Something small like raptors, it is the only case where hunting would be an equal game.

I imagine a few hundred chicken size with instable DNA, ready to evolve, but with small food needs to start.

With global warming it is a natural project. A new food supply, and population control.

I would say it would be awesome, but then I actually read Jurassic Park...it's a lot scarier than the movie was

The dinosaur ancestor to birds was something small like Coelophysis or Eoraptor, not T-Rex or Velociraptor. Of course, if it did escape from a lab, no poodle or trash can would be safe again ! ! There are animals in zoos today that have no natural habitat left to live in. There is no reason not to keep them alive or stop breeding them. A small dinosaur would fit into this category.

The only thing that I would worry about is what did small dinosaurs do to keep from being eaten. Were they poisonous? (claws or teeth) A few lizards and many snakes are poisonous. Still, the risk is small. I know of no birds that are poisonous.

As a former 8 year old boy, I can only conclude that creating dinosaurs should be the highest national priority