Thread:BastionMonk/@comment-108.193.149.0-20160204213702/@comment-1259419-20160205230950

Assuming you would know the complete sequence of a Corythosaur's DNA. You would have to insert it into an egg cell that could still read the Dino DNA.

So, you would need an egg cell of a species very closely related to the dino. Your best shot would be crocodiles or Ostriches. However, both are separated by over 70 million years of evoltion from any dinosaurs. Making the chance their egg cells compatible with the DNA very slim.

Your best shot would be the method used by Henry Wu and the real-life scientists that are trying to clone the Mammoth. Figure out what small portion of the dino's genome actually makes the animal look like a dinosaur (probably only 5-10%). Take the egg cell and genome of an extant species, keep the extant animal's DNA the same and only replace that 10%. In that way, most of the DNA in the DNA is compatible with the egg cell.