Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs

Well, the books had a better point anyway, but the dinosaurs on the movies were unrealistically overpowered to a point where the entire animal kingdom can't really hope to be.

It's too bad we can't actually resurrect them, because it would be unironically very cool. And the point of the book still stands anyway.

The only real problem with that is most dinosaurs lived in a time when there was 30% oxygen in the air. Maybe they could survive a bit at only 20%, but I imagine it would be like someone living on the top of Everest and before long succumbing to the lack of oxygen.

I once read a book about this: How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution, by Jack Horner and James Gorman. The basic idea is that dinosaur DNA is carried around by modern day chickens. The concept seemed pretty out there but the book does make a convincing argument for why it should be possible. The first author is a well known paleontologist, and the book was recommended to me by a paleontologist before I spent the week (as a volunteer) in his field crew.

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> The technology for this doesn't exist yet, and the ethics would be extremely questionable.

I do agree with this. Just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should.

Denesovian dna is a whole lot older than 500 years wooly mamoths, etc.And there is no such thing as "ethics", the absolute law of human endevor is that if a thing can be done for some gain, it will be done.The proof that there is no ethics is the fact that no technology has ever been proscribed, all technology has in fact been used for the most violent and/or profitable use that it can be put to, bar none. Peace and prosperity is the result of universal access to technology and violence, where there is no specific advantage to be exploited, not through "ethics" or morals. Ethics and morals, work in a household or tribe, or school,etc, but are completely absent from international type relationships. The faster we explore all of the possible implications of our newest technologys, the better, but its not going to be "nice" or the worst hell of all, fair.