The dinosaurs dominated the world for 160
million years, but 65 million years ago, one
rock ended it all. Well, to be fair, it was
a pretty big rock. But could we bring them
back, and more importantly, would we want
to?
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But that's not the point of this video. Now,
the possibilities of us seeing a real T-Rex,
or a pack of Velociraptors at the zoo are
awesome, but slim. This is because that method
they used in Jurassic Park to revive dinosaurs
using DNA from fossilized amber is impossible
because DNA breaks down too quickly. But there
could be another method; to genetically modify
a bird like an emu or an ostrich. Yes, genetically
modified birds. These won't result in a real
velociraptor at first, or really ever. It
would be really more like a "Gallosaurus".
But we don't have to force chicken embryos
into dinosaur-like shapes, after all, birds
are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, so
it may be possible to reverse evolve the birds.
It will be a kind of "guided-accelerated-evolution",
where a chicken's offspring, for example,
has a bigger body, a longer tail and a couple
teeth, then from generation to generation,
the features get more and more pronounced,
until you get something that looks close to
a raptor.
Large theropods, like the famous T-Rex and
the bizarre Therizinosaurus, and sauropods,
such as the Brachiosaurus, Seismosaurus and
Diplodocus, will be considerably more difficult
to recreate, mainly because of certain features,
like the column-like legs, which all birds
lack, and also the main reason; they're f*cking
huge! So, if we'll be able to recreate dinosaurs
from reverse evolving chickens, then we'll
probably only get small raptors. Not that
that is anything we really should be complaining
about, I mean, that's like going to Mars and
complaining that you don't have a good view
of the Earth, mainly because you would just
mistake it for a star, unless you could somehow
see a hint of blue.
But even if we could bring them back? Would
we want to? I understand that dinosaurs are
awesome, but for 160 million years, from the
dawn of the first dinosaurs, to the K/T mass
extinction, mammals basically looked like
this. Although, there were hundreds of dinosaur
species, and not all of the potential dinosaurs
we could recreate from a chicken are carnivorous,
there are many species of herbivorous, insectivorous,
and omnivorous raptors, such as the Anzu wyliei,
Caudipteryx zoui, Microraptor, and a lot more.
Plus, in zoos, even animals like lions and
hippos rarely get the chance to attack a spectator,
and those chances are either from being a
smart ape, or from being locked in by a dumb
human. But could we bring back dinosaurs from
extinction by traveling back to their era
like in Prehistoric Park? Find out next week.
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