Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-50.81.142.215-20141213091155/@comment-1259419-20141213150611

Good questions. With comparing the genomes (DNA) of birds, crocodilians and turtles you could estimate what the genomes of species A, B and C (see figure) looked like. The genome of the first dinosaurs probably looked like species B, and the theropods like species C. What the genomes of the brontosaurs and ornithopods looked like is less clear.

So, could brontosaurs and ornithopods be recreated. The only way in which any dinosaur will be recreated, as far as I can see, is through an advanced future version of the Chickenosaurus project. By modding the embryonal development of an extant archosaur, with hormonal treatment or genetic modification, we can create animals that look any dinosaur.

So, we could modify a chicken into a frilled, horned, 4 legged animal, a Triceratops-facsimile. To make the DNA of the Triceratops-facsimile as similar to the Mesozoic Triceratops as possible, we could give it the genes and chromosomal structure of species B, and a bit of species C. Furthermore, if we ever find pieces of protein or DNA of the Triceratops, we can put those sequences into its genome as well.