• Question: Do you think dinisours will come back to life

    Asked by anon-269436 to Jake on 27 Nov 2020.
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      Jake answered on 27 Nov 2020:


      I don’t think so. To bring back an extinct species we need a complete copy of its DNA (the code that tells us how to make a living thing). Unfortunately, DNA falls apart really quickly after an animal dies, and because most of the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, there’s not enough left to attempt to clone one. We shouldn’t feel too sad about that though – dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 180 million years, and their descendants (birds) are still around today!

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