DNA recovered from an apatosaurus fossil and injected into an ostrich egg is currently incubating in Britain. named spot, the excitement of the impending hatching is building...

 

 

http://news-hound.org/british-scientists-clone-dinosaur/

 

 

Edited April 1, 201411 yr by Moontanman

Is it April Fools' day there already? Cute kangaroo, though.

From the Independent:

 

British Scientists Clone Dinosaur

 

Click to read more from Dr. Sheridan.

Edited April 1, 201411 yr by Endy0816

Claims of even being able to isolate collagen fibers from dinosaur remains have been extremely controversial. Consider then that DNA isolated from frozen Mammoths is highly fragmented....it would be impossible to merely inject ancient DNA into an egg and recover such an organism.

Isn't the pristine form of the DNA destroyed during fossilization normally? How'd they manage to find DNA in a rock-like substance? Otherwise they would have been working on this a lot sooner.

 

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-dinosaur-dna-amber-01383.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA

 

It's got to be astronomically rare to find DNA that's so well preserved they can incubate it within an organism and succeed in the exact way they planned.

Edited April 1, 201411 yr by SamBridge

Isn't DNA destroyed during fossilization normally? How'd they manage to find DNA in a rock-like substance? Otherwise they would have been working on this a lot sooner.

 

They didn't. It's a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dinosaurclone.asp

 

April Fool's day and the internet is a bad mix.

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Moderator Note

Alright, April Fool's Day is over. I enjoyed it, and linked the thread to some friends... but today we're serious again, and this doesn't belong in Science News.

 

Since we don't have a "science hoax" subforum, I am moving it to the Lounge.

Since this clearly isn't true, I am also closing it.

 

Thread closed, and moved to the Lounge.