Re: Could we make the "Jurassic Park"?

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

>  By the way, I wonder if it's possible that we can make "Jurassic Park".I
> remember that dinosaur in "Jurassic Park" was cloned by using the blood
that
> was got from a mosquito shutted in amber. But biology says that there
cannot
> be the revival of the animals, if their collagen does not come to the
hand.
>   How could the laboratory created dinosaurs? Is it just a fantasy in the
> movie?
>   Or is the research done into the revival of dinosaurs in fact?
>
> Please teach me about these two questions.

There is a wonderful little book:

Rob DeSalle & David Lindley: The science of Jurassic Park and The Lost
World, or, How to build a dinosaur, BasicBooks/HarperCollinsPublishers

Highlights every single problem of the matter. Result -- it is possible in
principle, but it would require (1) the entire DNA and (2) _incredible_
amounts of time and money.