Please do not 'Jurassic Park' this thing back to life. Kthxbai.

monocasa · on Feb 7, 2018

DNA has a half life of only 521 years, so that avenue is unlikely to bear fruit (or dinosaurs, or scropi-ders) anyway.

dogma1138 · on Feb 7, 2018

http://www.nature.com/news/first-horses-arose-4-million-year...

Methods for extracting aDNA are always improving, oldest full genome sequencing is now over half a million years old.

dkersten · on Feb 7, 2018

If they artificially recreate the DNA somehow and then, again, somehow, bring these things to life, may as well edit the DNA and make them a lot larger. Now, that would be horrifying.

dogma1138 · on Feb 7, 2018

We don’t really know how big they could get mulching species can grow nearly in orders of magnitude.