Jurassic Park dinosaurs coming to life: Actor Jeff Goldblum says not so fast

Jeff Goldblum, actor of a multitude of movies, is skeptical of dinosaurs living among us.

As The Week explains, Feb. 17,  on Extinction:

Jeff Goldblum“Using DNA technology, scientists are working on recreating species that have disappeared. The technology, called “de-extinction,” is likely at least a decade off…  “back-breeding,” involves mating examples of a living species with traits similar to the extinct species. The second option is cloning… The third option is to edit the genes of an extinct species’ closest living analog to obtain an approximation.”

Some work is already underway with sheep, carrier pigeons and even the woolly mammoth with some encouraging results.

Now, Dr. Jack Horner chimes in with a prediction.  From boingboing.net:

“Famed paleontologist Dr. Jack Horner, who’s been a consultant on all four films and is the real-life inspiration for Jurassic Park‘s dinosaur expert Dr. Alan Grant, believes we’re (optimistically) just five years away from genetically engineering a dinosaur.”

Which has led actor Jeffrey Goldblum to Tweet out, March 9:

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should…

More from Yahoo News, Oct. 2019,

Jeff Goldblum, star of ‘Jurassic Park,’ has come out against recreating dinosaurs

Actor Jeff Goldblum weighed in on a (vaguely) pressing matter on Twitter over the weekend: Should scientists recreate dinosaurs?

DinosaursFirst, no one is currently able to recreate dinosaurs. But they are trying. Entrepreneur reports that a team of scientists from Harvard and Yale are reverse evolving chickens into dinosaurs. Yes, chickens. They are apparently closely related to dinosaurs, and the team has already made significant strides in mutating chickens back to the creatures from which they descended.

The publication also reports that Harvard scientists also recently inserted the genes of a woolly mammoth into elephants in order to recreate the extinct beasts.

UPDATE!

Jeff Goldblum has a new Disney special,

The World According to Jeff Goldblum

It starts airing in late November on Disney Cable.  According to the press release:

Through the prism of Jeff Goldblum’s always inquisitive and highly entertaining mind, nothing is as it seems in this new series. Each episode is centered around something we all love — like sneakers or ice cream — as Jeff pulls the thread on these deceptively familiar objects and unravels a wonderful world of astonishing connections, fascinating science and history, amazing people, and a whole lot of surprising big ideas and insights.’

Reference – Excerpt from Bio of Jack Horner:

Jack HornerJack Horner discovered that dinosaurs cared for their young, and some were social animals nesting in colonies.

A paleontologist, he specializes in researching dinosaur behavior and growth; he has accumulated evidence that many named species of dinosaur are actually immature versions of other dinosaur species: he believes up to a third of named dinosaur species could ‘disappear’ when the area is fully researched.

His research is now focused on reactivating dormant dinosaur DNA in birds to hatch modern-day dinosaurs.

Horner’s face is familiar to millions from his appearances in many television documentaries about dinosaurs.

Marion Brandvold had a rock shop in Bynum, Montana. Horner, who was doing field-work in Montana with his research partner Bob Makela, visited her shop to identify interesting bones she had found.

Horner was shown tiny bone parts. He identified these as a baby duck-billed dinosaur – the smallest he had ever seen. Brandvold showed him more bones and the site they came from.

Horner excavated the site, finding parts of 15 dinosaur babies.

In 1980 Horner was awarded National Science Foundation funding for a fossil-hunting expedition close to the site where Marion Brandvold found the first tiny Maiasaura bones. The site was near the small town of Choteau, Montana.

Update!

Various media including the UK Daily Mail, Feb. 2023, have reported that extinct mammals and birds, even some reptiles may be making a comeback.  But for 65 million year old dinosaurs it is unlikely that their DNA is retrievable.

Headline:

The real-life Jurassic Park: Inside the ambitious plans to bring back dodos, Tasmanian tigers and woolly mammoths – and why dinosaurs won’t be making a comeback any time soon!

 

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  • Erik says:

    I, for one, don’t look forward to the return of dinosaurs, and I’m not sure they could even survive breathing the air mixture that exists now, but was different in their time.

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