Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20150309022841

In the first novel, the dinosaur clones are brought to term using artificial eggs. While such technology has not been developed, artificial wombs have been developed, that have been tested on mice, goats and wobbegong sharks. Of these, the mouse embryo was brought to near-term before dying, and the sharks were successfully brought to term. I don't know what happened to the goats.

Many believe that this research should be banned for ethical reasons, but I think it has a lot of potential in bringing back extinct mammals, such as thylacines, Macrauchenia    ,     or ground sloths, which either have no suitable surrogates or have relatives that are too small to be used as surrogate parents, though it would take a lot of trial and error to get healthy offspring out of it. 