Could dinosaurs be brought back to life from eggs/DNA samples?
Dinosaurs can’t be brought back to life from eggs or DNA samples yet, as we don’t know enough about their DNA to do this. The amount of information in every cell in a dinosaur’s body, the DNA that says what a dinosaur is, is about the same as the number of words in an encyclopedia, and we can get it out of the bones by grinding them up and extracting tiny bits of the DNA that remains. The most information we can get right using DNA at the moment is about the same as one paragraph from that encyclopedia. Now, to bring them back to life we have to make that entire encyclopedia with every word absolutely right! It’d take a long time, and we’d have to grind up more dinosaur bones than have been found so far anywhere in the world!
