Can dinosaurs be cloned?

no. there is no dna left to do that.
the jurassic park version with the still liquid blood inside the fossilised mosquito is not possible, as even in the amber there would have been decomposition.

Despite the DNA that can be recovered from fossilized bone, skin and dung, there isn’t enough DNA. I read an article recently that if they were to splice available dinosaur DNA with another animal, it would be a bird, not a reptile or amphibian. Even so, our technology and understanding of cloning hasn’t reached the level to make this feasible yet.

It is possible, but not with current technology. If they were able to get the full dna strand, or enough partial strands, they wouldn’t need a frog, and it could be done, but not for a long long time.
I am hoping they will. I am also hoping it will eat Jeff Goldblume this time.

@filmfann what’s wrong with jeff?

watch Jurassic Park

@NathanESP This in a nutshell

@ragingloli: Is that remark supposed to be amusing? If not, then what?

It is theoretically possible, though of course not yet. Not sure if I’d like it to happen anyway.

Of course dinosaurs can be cloned. The movie Jurassic Park was based on true events, right?

yes, have you seen jurrasic park? :P

@sydaustralia welcome to fluther lurve.

Let’s try the mammoth first.

It’s theoretically possible. Even if viable DNA can’t be found, there might be a way to reconstrct its form mathematically and then go from there