Moontanman Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) 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, 2014 by Moontanman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Is it April Fools' day there already? Cute kangaroo, though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy0816 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) From the Independent: British Scientists Clone Dinosaur Click to read more from Dr. Sheridan. Edited April 1, 2014 by Endy0816 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadn737 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamBridge Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) 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, 2014 by SamBridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dinosaurclone.asp April Fool's day and the internet is a bad mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 ! 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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