Life won't find a way: how an ostrich fossil halted plans for a real-life Jurassic Park | Elsa Panciroli

Despite dinosaurs having met extinction long ago, our dreams of reviving them refuse to die. Recent events imply we may have to settle for resurrecting poultryThere are some ideas that just won ’t die. Like the villain in a movie, even when they’ve been shot with the bullets of refutation, scalded by heated discourse, and pushed off into the pool of disproven theories, these ideas still claw their way back, bedraggled and screaming, to attack us one more time.If there is one idea in palaeontology that typifies this tiresome cycle, it is the resurrection of the dinosaurs. “Can we ever bring them back?” it is so often asked. Despite scientists repeatedly saying no, the question lives on. This is due in part to the rehashing of a handful of studies that seemed for a moment to offer promise of a real-life Jurassic Park, but have all been shown to be flawed.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 21, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Elsa Panciroli Tags: Science Evolution Biology Dinosaurs Fossils Zoology Source Type: news