We will (most likely) be seeing something close to Dinosaurs in our future!

I'll try and find the article but there was a recent study saying that the T. Rex's closest realtives are most likely ratites (like ostriches emu's kiwi's and rheas) 

If this ever happens, I hope to God they engineer them in such a way we could have our own pet dinosaur. InGen's dream is finally being realized. ;_;

@Battra Where would you fit a T. Rex?

Lopsquid, we could have smaller variations of a chicken rex.

^But there will be full sized Rexes in our world, I can promise that!

This seems realy cool. I remember my dad telling me about some scienctists trying to bring back a mammoth too. But wouldn't it be Jurassic Park in real life?

<Ian Malcom Mode; ON> You can't control nature. Nature finds a way. (IIrc) </Ian Malcom Mode; OFF>

A pet dinosaur would be cool. I could have a mini me. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, my name is VirtualVel and it stands for VirtualVelociraptor :3.

I'm still waiting for my mammoth. ;-;

Anyway, I agree with a random comment on the internet about what they'd be used for. We shouldn't bring back extinct animals just to put them in a zoo. We should learn from them, maybe set up preserves. Some animals could be released into the wild, like species extinct in the early 2000's.

It is very cool to think about what awesome and previously thought as impossible will be done in the future of science.

I remember reading how cloning was pure Science Fiction and now it is possible (though legit extremely difficult for it to even be somewhat succesful.)

Wonder if they'll bring back the mammoth, passenger pigeon, extinct rams, and saber tooth tigers...

Now dinosaurs.

yes, indeed, scientist are running a test to mammoth and cloned at leat one to a mother asian elephant, but..... i forget what the year is it ?

GORILLAGODZILLA - What a very neat concept! I, too, find the notion of de-extinction to be most compelling. However, I have reservations with regards to the actual implementation of such a startling process. Mankind, in my opinion, was never meant to recreate life - to wit, ancient mammals. Consider the negative side effects of reenginnering a life-form of which we know very little - most notably the microorganisms it might be carrying as a natural part of its physiology. The last thing our world needs is an unknown virus against which we have no immunity! Regardless, I believe de-extinction is a very interesting premise! :)

^SR you bring a very compelling arguement to the table. I don't think that any disease would be created due to the fact that it isn't a legitimate, "Dinosaur" in the sense that we are reverse-engineering instead of cloning, it would most likely carry all the same diseases that a Chicken would carry, so I highly doubt any disease will be created when they do reverse-engineer.

GORILLAGODZILLA - You areabsolutely right! However, the statement I made concerning ancient diseases was made primarily with ancient mammals in mind. :)

^Thank you for the clarification!

GORILLAGODZILLA - You are most welcome! :)

I too believe that this would be the way dinoaurs. But it woud be difficult to bring back species such as Spinosaurus, since no bird or anything really resemble it, except for the Basilisk lizard. Or older species like Dilophosaurus. But it would be really amazing to see an actual real-life dinosaur. I just hope we've learned from Jurassic Park and the rest of the movies, and make better enclosures for them.