• Question: Could Jurassic Park ever exist?

    Asked by marfatron3000 to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joseph Cook

      Joseph Cook answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I doubt Jurassic Park could ever really exist. I don’t think there is enough surviving dinosaur DNA. It’s a fun story though, and a great movie.

    • Photo: Poonam Kaushik

      Poonam Kaushik answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      It used to exist million of years ago! but now it exists in museums or Steven Spielberg’s camera!!! 🙂

    • Photo: Dr Hywel Jones

      Dr Hywel Jones answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Well a lot of the technology in the film is based on real science so in some small ways such a thing could exist. However, whether there is really the demand and the money to start such a thing in real life is unlikely. The actual viability of finding dinosaur DNA is unlikely and the development of the technology would likely take many tens of years to develop. I suspect the technologies may be put to better use than the to make a theme park. However, we may be able to retrieve DNA from some more recent extinctions like the DoDo and the Thylacine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine). Or we could even collect DNA from endangered species now so that if they do go extinct we could bring them back in the future. We are already doing this for plants, there is a big secret cave in Greenland where samples of seeds from all the worlds important plants are being kept just in case there is ever a mass extinction of such plats (probably caused by us and climate change)

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