Scientists Extract 'Blood' From Dinosaur Bones

[FryerTuck]

"I for one welcome our [dinosaur] overlords!" [/kent brockman voice]

I don't think dinosaurs would survive long anyway. The atmosphere today isn't nearly as oxygen-rich as it was 65 million years ago, so unless we could engineer their bodies somehow to be less reliant on oxygen (in which case you don't really have dinosaurs anymore, at least not real ones), they'd all be dead an hour after being hatched. *climbs down off of high horse*

Actually it is possible for scientists to create velociraptors the sixe of the ones in Jurrasic Park, after all the creatures in that movie are perhaps the size of a man and there are birds now a day that reach that size on small things like berries so it is possible for scientists to have a stable population of velociraptors regardless of oxygen requirements. Through the real velociraptor was the size of a wolf there was a dinosaur called Achillobator which while shaped like velociraptor, was about 17 feet long I believe.

Not sure if big dinosaurs could be created though.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

We must all team up on them

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Finally, something a little more exciting than Deer hunting. *Shuffles bolt of Arisaka rifle*

 

[ssgt splatter]

Welcome, to Jurassic Park.

lol

holy crap, time to brush up on my velociraptor survival plans....

Yeah no kidding

 

[azadiscool]

Welcome, to Jurassic Park.

Damn, you beat me to it.

If a real Jurassic Park was constructed, then I sure as hell hope nobody is stupid to use frog DNA, or any outside DNA, for that matter..

 

[neuromasser]

Spoiler: Dinosaurs? Awesome!

Spoiler: Random Dinos

Spoiler: Just Random

 

[FryerTuck]

Welcome, to Jurassic Park.

Damn, you beat me to it.

If a real Jurassic Park was constructed, then I sure as hell hope nobody is stupid to use frog DNA, or any outside DNA, for that matter..

I don't think it would work if they used frog dna anyway, because frogs are cool-blooded and dinosaur warm-blooded so the blood would be screwed up.

 

[azadiscool]

Welcome, to Jurassic Park.

Damn, you beat me to it.

If a real Jurassic Park was constructed, then I sure as hell hope nobody is stupid to use frog DNA, or any outside DNA, for that matter..

I don't think it would work if they used frog dna anyway, because frogs are cool-blooded and dinosaur warm-blooded so the blood would be screwed up.

It seems Michael Crichton's research failed him.

Spoiler: Random Dinos

Spoiler: Just Random

Second photo: Win!

 

[Charli]

In just a few decades we'll no longer be riding horses, we'll be riding dinosaurs.

And I will hunt you all down from atop my mighty steed, ahahaha.
...what?

 

[McBurks]

They will clone and create the ultimate monster..... MEGLADON.

 

[Huey1000]

Jurassic Park! JURASSIC PARK! It's not the dark, it's not a shark! It's a dinosaur with knives? Oh crap, run for your lives!!!... wait, WTF?!

 

[TikiShades]

Scientists are researching Reverse Genetic Engineering, which is the process of activating and deactivating genetic codes at certain times on a fetus to change how it evolves and is born.

Basically, they take a chicken fetus, activate some genes deactivate some genes at certain points in its development, and, theoretically, you could create a dinosaur. They've created a chicken with teeth, and I think arms.

Soon, working at McDonalds won't be such a bad thing. If you are the reverse genetic engineer that makes the dinosaur-sized chickens, that is.

 

[DigitalJedl]

...
Everyone get your L4D Dino mods updated.
/Adds sunglasses + Indiana Jones hat.

Mkay, let's go. >_>

 

[0p3rati0n]

holy crap, time to brush up on my velociraptor survival plans....

Load up the AK's and shotties Mac

 

[TikiShades]

Turok - Not just a game anymore.

 

[ffxfriek]

holy crap, time to brush up on my velociraptor survival plans....

Indeed. XKCD should have a good solution up in a couple days.

first zombies now dinosaurs...

 

[dantheman931]

"I for one welcome our [dinosaur] overlords!" [/kent brockman voice]

I don't think dinosaurs would survive long anyway. The atmosphere today isn't nearly as oxygen-rich as it was 65 million years ago, so unless we could engineer their bodies somehow to be less reliant on oxygen (in which case you don't really have dinosaurs anymore, at least not real ones), they'd all be dead an hour after being hatched. *climbs down off of high horse*

Actually it is possible for scientists to create velociraptors the sixe of the ones in Jurrasic Park, after all the creatures in that movie are perhaps the size of a man and there are birds now a day that reach that size on small things like berries so it is possible for scientists to have a stable population of velociraptors regardless of oxygen requirements. Through the real velociraptor was the size of a wolf there was a dinosaur called Achillobator which while shaped like velociraptor, was about 17 feet long I believe.

Not sure if big dinosaurs could be created though.

It's not a matter of size, it's a matter of what the body is capable of doing with the materials it's given to work with. Your small size wouldn't save you if you were suddenly teleported to Mars; you'd suffocate all the same, because there's not enough oxygen to sustain you. (I'm ignoring the fact that the low oxygen would in fact be almost neck-and-neck with the way-the-hell-below-zero temperatures in the race to horribly end you.) The difference between Earth and Mars may not be as big as the difference between 65 million years ago and today, but it's the same basic principle; the dinosaurs would still suffocate eventually, because their bodies just wouldn't be used to the comparatively low-oxygen environment. They would have to be adapted at the genetic level, which would probably alter them to the point that you wouldn't really have dinosaurs anymore. And before anyone calls me out on this, the reason we have animals so much bigger than us that still thrive in this atmosphere is because their bodies are adapted to their particular ecological niche to use the available oxygen more efficiently; an elephant or a mouse would suffocate on Mars just like we would.

(Then again, it's late, so I might have my science screwed up right now and be pulling all of this directly out of my ass. If so, please don't bash me too hard.)

Also, to which birds are you referring? All the large birds that I know of are omnivorous.

 

[Chalupacabra]

Does this mean I need to buy a cadillac?

 

[traceur_]

Dinosaur cavalry anyone?

I'd like to see that. They may have 10 tonne tanks, but we have Infantry riding T-Rex's.

even better

NINJAS ON VELOCIRAPTORS

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