Oct 26, 2021. A team has extracted what could be DNA molecules from a 125-million-year-old fossil dinosaur, according to a study published last month (September 24) in Communications Biology. Gizmodo reports the oldest sequenced DNA belongs to a million-year-old woolly mammoth.

In fact, birds are commonly thought to be the only animals around today that are direct descendants of dinosaurs. So next time you visit a farm, remember, all those squawking chickens are actually the closest living relative of the most incredible predator the world has ever known!

The remnants of DNA may lurk in 125 million-year-old dinosaur fossils found in China. If the microscopic structures are indeed DNA, they would be the oldest recorded preservation of chromosome material in a vertebrate fossil.

While this might seem possible at first glance, it’s highly unlikely that scientists could find usable dinosaur DNA in mosquito fossils. But if researchers did find a perfectly preserved mosquito with a body full of dinosaur blood, retrieving its DNA would still be difficult.

The answer is YES. In fact they will return to the face of the earth in 2050. We found a pregnant T. rex fossil and had DNA in it this is rare and this helps scientists take a step closer of animal cloning a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs.

In 2020, researchers from the U.S. and China discovered cartilage that they believe contains dinosaur DNA, according to a study published in the journal National Service Review.

The closest living relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex are birds such as chickens and ostriches, according to research published today in Science (and promptly reported in the New York Times). Paleontologists used material discovered in a chance find in 2003 to pin down the link.

“We are a long, long way from being able to reconstruct the DNA of extinct creatures, and in fact it may be impossible to resurrect the DNA of dinosaurs or other long-extinct forms. No one has been able to demonstrate incontrovertibly, as of yet, that they can retrieve DNA from an extinct species.

Controversial studies claim to have detected DNA in 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, but all too often these later turn out to be contamination from much more recent samples. Amber may seem like a more viable preservation method, since it’s able to preserve soft tissues like feathers, skin, and even blood cells.

“In principle, resurrection genomics can be used to revive extinct species or populations. There is actually an interest in this area. However, dinosaurs are probably not possible—but certainly plants, if we have seeds, or even bacteria or other microbes are possible,” said Purugganan.

(Image: © John Megahan) In ” Jurassic Park ,” scientists extract 80-million-year-old dino DNA from the bellies of mosquitoes trapped in amber. Researchers may never be able to extract genetic material that old and bring a T. rex back to life, but a new study suggests DNA can survive in fossils longer than previously believed.

It isn’t possible to bring dinosaurs back to life, scientists say, because their DNA is too degraded after millions of years. But work is now under way to bring back more recently extinct species.

To put in different terms, cloning a dinosaur is theoretically possible, but it’s not like cloning a sheep. It has to do with how cloning works. In nuclear transfer cloning, a nucleus from the animal to be cloned is inserted into an egg with its nucleus removed.

Cloning Dinosaurs Is Now Possible According To Scientists. Of all the questionable scientific practices out there, some are more controversial than others, and cloning dinosaurs is amongst them.