Dinosaur Clone Explained

Apatosaurus DNA extract by British scientists was used to clone a baby dinosaur by injecting the dino DNA into a fertile ostrich womb.

Is this the real life image of a newborn cloned dinosaur?

Recently I was sent a link on Facebook to a news site that reported that Scientists at Liverpool's John Moore University had successfully cloned a dinosaur.

According to the story the scientists were able to extract apatosaurus DNA from preserved fossils and inject it into a fertile ostrich womb.

Apparently Ostriches share a lot of genetic traits with dinosaurs and would be the most viable method of fertilization.

The article goes on to claim that the newborn, fondly named “spot” was incubating at the University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Are we on the path to a real life Jurassic Park? Its an interesting but scary thought.

A hatchling can easily weigh as much as a watermelon. Can you imagine a full grown apatosaurus on display at a zoo? They can grow to be 75 feet long, that's bigger than 3 elephants.

How could you even contain such a beast? But wait... is cloning even possible?

Scientists have been able to clone animals such as sheep for years. There was the famous case of Dolly the cloned sheep who was born in 1996, but died in 2003.

What about cloning a dinosaur? Well researchers from Manchester University attempted to do just that.

Using the most advanced extraction methods available they were completely unable to reclaim any DNA – ancient or otherwise.

Because DNA molecules just don't last that long and only have a half-life of around 500 years. So there is no way they could extract DNA from something over 10,000 or 150 millions years old.

A quick search on the web revealed that the story was a hoax!

Can you guess what this animal really was? It turned out to just be a baby kangaroo. So will we ever see a real life Jurassic park?

Scientists say we would have a better chance if we created a time machine, than cloning.

Let's Connect

[gracefoltzzz]

I’m a veterinarian and I couldn’t IMAGINE a dinosaur coming in for a monthly checkup 🤣

[StreetLightPony]

It's okay people. As long as they don't know how to open doors...

[electriceucalyptus]

I actually go to this uni, and trust me they're not cloning dinosaurs there

[theerondoc]

Then build a time machine and steal a dino egg

[Order-Sol]

Actually building a time machine will be the worst idea.

[blaster]

If we actually make a time machine, the possibility of being able clone a dino just went up substantially.

[Masterpieceman]

Didn't they find liquid blood in a wooly mammoth recently? should be possible to clone then, right?

[jaratewagen]

I'm from Oz, so I knew it was a joey at first glance.

[IndoChannelKhanRP]

I was hoping Jurassic Park would come true, minus all the deaths.

[ThatRandomBlackGuy]

but once we make a time machine.. then we could clone dionsaurs :o

[danked]

'a hatchling can weigh as much as a watermelon'. WATERMELOOON

[kalt]

The funny thing is I just watched a kangaroo documentary like 20mins ago and was the first time I saw what new born kangaroos look like. I knew right away that it was a kangaroo because the documentary and one thing that is more surprising than dino cloning is how small baby kangaroos are. They start out the size of a quarter and grow to be the size a deer amazing.

[Preposter]

I think we can make dinosaurs easy. I mean we already made glowing fish .... We have a better chance of making our own  species of dinosaurs then finding DNA from the old dinos. All we have to do is make some modifications to the freaking chicken, so far we made it have teeth and the next step is to give it claws and a long tail which is possible ...

[thiccchanka]

Fell off my chair after I heard that moo sound.

[djcranium]

There's no way a time machine can be built. Impossible otherwise if a time machine was ever built in the future .it would turn up today . Get your head round that.

[MarcusGreen-yg]

So if they actually cloned a dinosaur and proved they exist, wouldn't they basically prove the christian religion to be false too?

[random_chick]

You guys are really good at making a baby kangaroo clone

[nash]

So ironic that its an Apatosaurus and its named Spot. sounds Familer? *Cough* "Good Dinosaur" *cough*

[jessemartin]

The problem with this theory is, there isn't enough oxygen in the air for it to grow into a full grown adult. It would die of suffocation. When dinosaurs were around, the oxygen percentage in the air was much higher.

[catlover]

Anybody who has any education in zoology can tell you that the picture of the baby "dinosaur" is actually a very young macropod.