GAINESVILLE, FL – Scientists at the University of Florida have successfully cloned a dinosaur, a spokesman from the university said yesterday.
The dinosaur, a baby Apatosaurus nicknamed “Spot,” is currently being incubated at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
The scientists extracted DNA from preserved Apatosaurus fossils, which were on display at the university’s museum of natural science. Once the DNA was harvested, scientists injected it into a fertile ostrich womb.
“Ostriches share a lot of genetic traits with dinosaurs,” said Dr. Norman Trudell, a biology professor at UF and the project’s leading scientist. “Their eggshell microstructures are almost identical to those of the Apatosaurus. That’s why the cloning worked so perfectly.”
Those in the scientific community say the dinosaur cloning – the first ever of its kind – is a milestone for genetic engineering.
“I used to think this kind of thing could only happen in the movies,” said Dr. Sven Bjornsen, a UF chemistry professor. “But we’re making it happen right here in our lab. It’s astounding.”
The cloning attracted the attention of a wide variety of animal rights activists and religious groups. They claim that animal cloning is unethical and immoral.
PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk criticized the scientists for performing potentially life threatening threats on a new species.
“These scientists brought an animal from the Jurassic age back to life – just to watch it suffer!” she said.
But Dr. Trudell doesn’t seem to be bothered by the activists’ quibbling. He says that the opportunities afforded by dinosaur cloning are endless.
Within ten years, we could repopulate the world with dinosaurs,” he said. “We could harvest them for civic service, law enforcement, or even mass transportation.”
“Imagine riding to work on a dinosaur,” he continued. “Wouldn’t that be incredible?”
As of press time, the dinosaur is in stable condition. Scientists plan to run more tests on him today.
they have him please help there is a secret tunel under the washington building that is where the dinosaurs are
Did Dr. Micheal Heinous have anything to do with this?
I got 7 dinosaurs in my backyard.
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EVERYONE SHOULD RUN OR GET OUT UR GUNS CAUSE WHEN THE DINO GETS OUT SHOOT HIM A** DOWN OR ELSE HELL EAT YOU UP WHICH SCIENTIST MIGHT DO TO CHECK HOW THEY REACT AND WHAT IS INSIDE THERE BODIES
there not all meat eaters
Sounds like the scientists are making jarassic park a reality, i saw a programme on this and they distribed one stage of this process to difficult, not sure if it could ever come to anything.
….what are they doing man……what if dinosaurs gone wild……were gonna be foods for them..T_T…imagine..
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
it's possible as long as we have their DNA
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is this true? the article is posted august 11 and the comments are two weeks earlier than the article.. how is this possible..? :
it is possible not long ago the found t-rex dna in a t-rex thi bone they proved dinosaurs and man lived together
It's possible cause your mothers a whore.
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this jurassic park just waiting to happen
Ikr these people are idiots….
Omg wat do they thinkm they r doing this is crazy I mean wow this spectacular I wonder wat they r going to do next probaly going to do something else anyway rthats kind of smart they must have been working on this really hard werll at least they did it well its still crAzy
I think Einstein should be cloned next.
Unbelievable!Wow , this is crazyness, maybe on a day they will clone Jesus and on another day Bruce Lee?
that's funny, they might as well clone the virgin marry to do a pepsmier on her to see if she really was a virgin then clone Elvis Presley
Why not megan fox while you're at it!!!!
just be glad its not a major carnivore like trex
my childhood dream come true!
Yep your dream will come true…haven't u seen jurassic park half of the people died! U will live to see your dream but shortly die cause a freaking Dino will eat you while your taking a crap. Think about it…aren't they extinct for a reason? All I am saying is I am terrified of what this world will become.
i think, very impossible..!
Didn't know veterinary medicine meant you were a genius on regenerative genetics…would have been more believable if you had not used A. Florida, B. PETA (a dumb organization claiming animals have feelings and a purpose; if you want ethical treatment, start with the animals in the organization which are yourselves) C. Veterinary medicine instead of something like idk, bio-engineering or simple genetics and finally D. The fact that neither of those are pictures of the the Apatosaurus. Yay internet trolling
there are multiple colleges of veterinary medicine that have cloning teams. while this article is obviously fake (only one source, this site) it's pretty wellmade.
I feel more sorry for animals than i do most humans, humanitarians are a joke. fuck you all. genocide is a gift from god. fuck goyim.
Wow, a dinosaur being cloned, can't believe it, next try to clone a velociraptor, love to see that…
omg!!! the watchers are here
Very dangerous saurus!
Amazing ive waited years to see this happen. Extremely exciting…..
WOW! I better get my "Shaving cream" ready.
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Thanks i will keep that in mind…..
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