Dinosaurs Roaming the Earth in the Next Ten Years!
British Scientists have reached a milestone in genetic engineering. A living, breathing dinosaur has been cloned at Liverpool's John Moore University. Or so was reported on March 28, 2014. The dinosaur is a baby Apatosaurus, nicknamed "Spot" and is currently being incubated at the University College of Veterinary Medicine. "Spot" was cloned by extracting DNA from preserved Apatosaurus fossils. Once the DNA was harvested, it was then injected in to a fertile ostrich womb because ostriches share genetic traits with dinosaurs.
The Apatosaurus for those who are pondering, is a mid-sized sauropod dinosaur reaching 30 feet tall, 67 feet in length and weighing 66,000 pounds; that lived in the Late Jurassic Period, from 154 to 144 million years ago. Apatosaurus were omnivorous, meaning they ate plants, animals and eggs. It's also thought that they might have been scavengers.
So what's the College of Veterinary Medicine to do with this creature that will grow to such enormous size, I ponder? Well, animal right's organizations including PETA are having fits over this endeavor, and fear that Spot will become a huge lab rat, with a life of experiments and torture.
This is all pretty amazing since the scientist's goal is to repopulate the world with dinosaurs within the next ten years. And that is, if the super volcano at Yellowstone doesn't erupt and bring about another period of mass extinction!
http://news-hound.org/british-scientists-clone-dinosaur/
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