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Today's scientists are recreating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. Sounds like science fiction? Not any longer.

Through rapid advances in genetics, scientists are discovering the genetic traits of dinosaurs in the DNA of birds. They are showing that it is possible to bring back teeth, long tails and hands in place of wings. In Dinosaurs: Return to Life, learn why the dream of recreating the dinosaur genome is coming closer to reality.

Ever since Mary Higby Schweitzer peeked inside the fractured thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the introverted scientist's life hasn't been the same. Neither has the field of paleontology.


In 2004, Schweitzer gazed through a microscope in her laboratory at North Carolina State University and saw lifelike tissue that had no business inhabiting a fossilized dinosaur skeleton: fibrous matrix, stretchy like a wet scab on human skin; what appeared to be supple bone cells, their three-dimensional shapes intact; and translucent blood vessels that looked as if they could have come straight from an ostrich at the zoo.

An alternate hypothesis has been suggested that the "soft" tissues are in actual fact bacterial biofilms. Kaye TG, Gaugler G, Sawlowicz Z (2008) Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms.

Whilst certain organisations continue to parrot the phrase "no transitional fossils have ever been found" the list of species which possess transitional features continues to grow.

Epidexipteryx hui, Protoavis, Protarchaeopteryx, Archeopteryx, Avimimus, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Rahonavis, Shuvuuia, Sinornithosaurus, Beipiasaurus, Microraptor, Nomingia, Epidendrosaurus, Cryptovolans, Scansoriopteryx, Yixianosaurus, Dilong, Pedopenna, Jinfengopteryx, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornis, Ambiortus, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis

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[RichardFilatov]

PLEASE! What is the name of this documentary???

[djarm67]

@RichardFilatov @1:25 it says "Dinosaurs: Return to life?"

[tvshowuploader7]

this video has copyrights of discovery channel now and they are going to remove it soon so be careful but thanks for uploading this

[djarm67]

@tvshowuploader7 Discovery already have a copyright claim on this series (2 years ago) and choose to advertise and generate revenue from it.

[tvshowuploader7]

@djarm67 but if I upload it right will they still blocked right?

[djarm67]

@tvshowuploader7 I'm not sure what their determining factors are regarding blocking or advertising but my best guess would be one of revenue generation. They make money on certain vids of mine. That doesn't mean that they will allow anyone to upload anything.

[oblivion476]

Wow, Fundie Defense Force is trying hard in these comments. Protip, pray these heathen Satanists will all die and a new golden age of Mulsim...oh wait I mean Christian Theology will reign supreme soon. Sorry, I get all of them confused sometimes.

[lightitupfool]

Jesus was not smart enough to be a quantum physicist. Probably not even smart enough to be a family physician. Considering he could of saved the lives of thousands just by telling them to wash their hands. #Think2011

[IfinduIgetu]

I aqm only 16 and me and my friend have started our own genetic research to bring back these animals, it all has to do with Jurassic Park considering I am the biggest fan. I am a firm believer in the amber theory, we are not looking hard enough in amber. Yes every part of my research is based off of JP because it can work. I dream one day I can build a Jurassic Park, but until then we work. Oh and can you guess the name of our genetics team lol yes its InGen.

[grisgrisy]

love the video really good

[smuggecko]

very interesting thanks

[shellybirdy]

really informative and interesting

[jjclassjj]

really informative and interesting

[IshtarNike]

@flyingscience2 Your argument has no facts and most of what your doing is trivialising and taking the piss out of your opponents argument. This, as arguments go, is a poor one. You assume such a process REQUIRES information because as a human thats what you'd need to do it, but remember, atoms aren't human!

[IshtarNike]

@flyingscience2 1) Its clear to scientists that biology far surpasses astromony in complexity. Just because it's on a much smaller scale doesn't make it less likely. Infact it must be easier to develop a complex system on a small scale because interactions happen so much faster, it takes millenia for galaxies to collide, not so with cells and molecules.

[rossini55]

Arent most fossils the result of being buried rapidly than just dying on the desert floor like in this vid?

[rossini55]

Wouldnt a dinosaurs skin would be too thick for an insect to puncture deep enough to extract blood. You MIGHT get early mammal blood, but a T Rex?