Paleontologists Discover Fossilized Dinosaur Blood!

I'll go call Dr. Wu, you go call Simon Masrani.

:D

SVANYA - That is incredible in the extreme! I can only imagine how excited the  researchers felt when they made this discovery! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! :)

Then that means real life Jurassic Park? :D

SKELETURTLETBEST AKA KAIJUSAURUS - That would be incredibly neat! Unfortunately, however, I believe the blood that has been discovered is incapable of offering viable DNA due to genetic breakdown. All that remains, from what I can tell, is a mold of the blood cells. :)

Oh ok.

SKELETURTLETHEBEST AKA KAIJUSAURUS - Nevertheless, it would still be extremely compelling if what you proposed was made possible by this discovery! :)

@Something Real

The way I see it, We give this twenty years or so, and we should by that time have advanced our genetic programs enough that we can begin to better understand a Genetic code. Thus, By examining the bits of code here, we can replicate it. 

Of course... Ramblings. 

X_PADEN_X - I greatly enjoy your enthusiasm! Additionally, I never consider anything you say to be "ramblings"; I find that it is always valuable to listen when you have something to say. :)

X_PADEN_X -

As much as I would love to think that, it's simply impossible. DNA has a half life of about 512 years, meaning that every 512 years, a sample of DNA will deteriorate by 50%; no matter what substance it's preserved in. After another 512 years, that 50% will deteriorate by another 50%. So on and so forth.

Dinosaurs are LONG gone. Their genetic code is well past the point of recovery.

Nonetheless, this is a very interesting find. It makes me wonder; does this help at all with determining if dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded? It would be nice to have that question definitively answered.

NATEZILLA10000 - Your knowledge of genetic viability is quite impressive! Thank you for adding this information! :)

Thanks for sharing this Svanya! Personally, I don't care if dinosaurs are ever brought back (which they can't). There's so many cool Ice Age + recently extinct animals to clone!