User blog comment:Jurassic Park Treasury/How to clone a Velociraptor/@comment-66.195.91.190-20150506153159/@comment-3213993-20150507004913

1. Two mammoth genomes have been sequenced recently.

2. The method of cloning that I talk about is not cloning, but actually germ cell transplantation. By implanting the embryo of one bird species with the germ cells of another bird species. The embryos will hatch, grow up, mate and produce chicks of that different bird species. It has been demonstrated between chicken and houbaras, as cited in this post.

3. Genome sequencing has become a lot easier in 10 years. Now whole genomes can be sequenced in days or weeks for just a few thousand dollars.

4. Cloning has worked for surrogates that are several million years apart, like bantengs from cows.

5. Genes from other species have been put in other species with no clearly visible changes. If a raptor ended up with a long neck, you could use a different version of the gene that causes that.

6. This article was written two years ago. I have learned a lot since then. I'll update the post to fit with that. The forums are more up to date, the recreating dinosaurs page and its related pages are incomplete and outdated.