entertaining, and you know some nice ideas in there, tantalizing ideas,

we cannot clone a dinosaur.

We cannot create a Jurassic Park. For a number of reasons

first there isn't a lot of DNA

preserved in the ancient fossils, and that that is, is severely damaged. We're nowhere near

ever finding a whole genome for an extinct dinosaur.

Maybe in a few years, maybe down the line, we might finally get some really reliable

evidence on a DNA sequence

from a dinosaur,

from some tissue of an ancient dinosaur, but it will only be a tiny, tiny smattering of

that huge genome. It could be as many as

thirty thousand genes, and we might get a signal from a couple of them,

and that certainly won't be enough to clone

a dinosaur.

So I think the answer to this question is

it's impossible to clone a dinosaur.