Is it possible to clone/revive dinosaurs?

[Job for a Cowboy]

About a month ago, scientists announced the official first process of cloning a wooly mammoth, basing it off of the wholly preserved corpse of that mammoth cub they found awhile ago.

[Spectrez]

There was a story on the news about a year ago that there was dinosaur tissue found buried.

[yahtzo]

It would be pretty awesome to have your own pet T-Rex.

[Herecius]

We are more likely to have a genetically modified and scientifically 'evolved' modern-day creature that looks like a dinosaur than we are likely to find enough intact dinosaur DNA in order to make it possible to clone one, I would think.

[xindralol]

have you not seen jurassic park?!

[dylanh88]

Honestly i think it is probably about 50% possible to recreate Dinosaurs (Velociraptor would be most probable since it only went extinct about 68-75 million years ago) that will get more DNA results than some Dinosaurs , if you think about it you can try to take some DNA from a bone and if possible you may be able to inject it to a chicken/crocodilian. And put it in a incubator and see what may happen. There are very few ways to even think about recreating Dinosaurs, unlike in "Jurassic park" cloning them is not going to be possible for hundreds of years the human race will probably never see it. I'm not saying we won't but we may and may not but thats my thoughts of recreating Dinosaurs.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

the wooly mammoth was found encased in permafrost ice, it wasn't fossilised. There is next to zero usable DNA in fossilised tissue

[Spork7]

Crocodiles are a different strain than things like a T-Rex or Velociraptor, which relate more to chickens. Prehistoric Crocodiles existed 300 million years ago.

In regards to the "human gap":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis - 2 to 1 million years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus - After them(ish)

Keep in mind, just like we are today, ancient humans were considered social, and buried/cared for their dead. Also a lot harder to find remains for smaller things like humans that decompose quickly as opposed to GIANT creatures like the dinosaurs.

Just to be a bit more clear on the "human gap", this link should have a slightly more in depth chart for it. Just scroll down to the pinkish colored chart and there it is. I apologize for not being able to find a more recent source, this information is debated and could be completely innacurate, but this is all i was able to locate. Shows more of the other options for gaps.
http://darwiniana.org/hominid.htm

[Kalyyn]

It's certainly possible. There's no disputing that. However, 2 things need to exist before we can do it. interest, and money. Special emphasis on money.

[Callace]

Is it possible to clone/revive dinosaurs?

Almost.

[artemishunter1]

Do we even want to clone a dinosaur? Jurassic park did not end well. Also, where the hell we gonna put the revived dinosaurs?

[haxartus]

It's certainly possible. There's no disputing that. However, 2 things need to exist before we can do it. interest, and money. Special emphasis on money.

No, it's not possible to clone a dinosaur. We can't find a preserved dinosaur DNA molecule after that long. And that's not the only problem.

[Deleted]

The Problem is that you would need a female gamete (hope its the right word just used translation sites), which you don't have

[shocktopuslol]

science has created a way for scientists to make synthetic life, once more is known about this the possibilities are endless.
the only problem is you would need to create a whole genetic code, which would be very difficult

[rantus]

No, it's not possible to clone a dinosaur. We can't find a preserved dinosaur DNA molecule after that long. And that's not the only problem.

It is possible, we just don't have what we need to do it

[Admuntour]

We hardly even know how our body works, how the hundreds of thousands of genes in our body work, what kind of impact do certain chemicals have on our body/genes what kind of impact our environment has on us/our genes. And yet we believe we could create a entire dinosaur from scratch? How arrogant can you be?
Before we should even try to undertake something like that we need to change our own chaotic money driven human society, end all wars, end hunger, cure all diseases and once we have nothing better to do we could focus on this.

At the moment this is just another great big waste of time. Building a dinosaur from scratch is likely to not work since it defeat the points, it would be a creation made of our own image, and it would lack any instincts, cloning, as far as we know is possible but not viable since there are no pieces of DNA that could have survived that long.
As far as I'm concerned researching ways how to create new dinosaurs can wait until us humans figure out a way to not kill ourselves and become our own fossils.

[haxartus]

We hardly even know how our body works, how the hundreds of thousands of genes in our body work, what kind of impact do certain chemicals have on our body/genes what kind of impact our environment has on us/our genes. And yet we believe we could create a entire dinosaur from scratch? How arrogant can you be?
Before we should even try to undertake something like that we need to change our own chaotic money driven human society, end all wars, end hunger, cure all diseases and once we have nothing better to do we could focus on this.

At the moment this is just another great big waste of time. Building a dinosaur from scratch is likely to not work since it defeat the points, it would be a creation made of our own image, and it would lack any instincts, cloning, as far as we know is possible but not viable since there are no pieces of DNA that could have survived that long.
As far as I'm concerned researching ways how to create new dinosaurs can wait until us humans figure out a way to not kill ourselves and become our own fossils.

This is not cloning or reviving a dinosaur. This is creating an entire new animal species, which only looks like a dinosaur.

[Skorch]

Go read this book: The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World

It answered this question like 10 years ago when these movies were popular. I have a copy myself.

Even if the entire code were somehow discovered, it would be out of order & in tiny pieces. Literally, billions of nucleic acids would have to be combined & done so with 100% precision - DNA code is only one of many crucial factors.

In short, without knowledge of the complete process (something we don’t even have full understanding of in creatures alive today), you would merely have a bunch of chemicals in a test tube.

[Kalyyn]

No, it's not possible to clone a dinosaur. We can't find a preserved dinosaur DNA molecule after that long. And that's not the only problem.

If it was impossible to find dinosaur DNA, then people wouldn't be looking for it. Yet, those projects still receive funding to this day...

[Deleted]

If it was impossible to find dinosaur DNA, then people wouldn't be looking for it. Yet, those projects still receive funding to this day...

They have found Mummified Dinosaur flesh and sinew, yes, mummified, as in it's still organic tissue. the only problem is DNA is only small part of it, you may have the blueprints and you may have the blueprints key figured out, but you still need to build the thing.