>> What's next? A movie where they extract dinosaur DNA from foscils a-- 
>> hey, wait a sec...
> 
> They're actually doing this now, by the way. :-)  I think they're 
> finding fossils with enough DNA in different places they can figure out 
> how to stitch together an entire genome.  *And* they're comparing it to 
> modern reptiles.

What, you mean despite the minor detail that DNA molecules slowly 
decompose into simpler molecules and we're talking about animals that 
lived 70,000,000 years ago? :-P

Regardless, I doubt we'll be reanimating any long-dead animals any time 
soon. (And even if we did, how would we know if they are accurate 
recreations or not? Certainly we couldn't observe any behaviours that 
aren't innate. And so on.)

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