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Re-animating Fossilized Animals

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Ever since Michael Crichton brought Doctor Wu to life in Jurassic Park, and fans flocked to watch Wu bring Dinosaurs to life from the blood of preserved mosquitos, the debate about re-animating the dead or extinct has been ongoing. The closest we’ve come to manufacturing a real dinosaur, has been in the lab where we’ve turned back time a litte bit in chickens. Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, by simply losing their tails and transforming their arms into wings, it would reason that turning back the clock on that evolution would produce a proper replica. But, I use the term manufacture, because, making something that looks like a dino would be easier than producing an exact clone. In most cloning a nucleus of the animal is swapped with the nucleus of an egg, because the nucleus contains most of the information needed. Finding an entire nucleus of a long extinct animal is unlikely. Though, there has been talk of trying to ressurect the wholly mammoth from such well-preserved spec...

Fossil Fuel

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Doctor Datson is getting older, but that doesn’t keep him from still getting into mischief. When one of his lab experiments re-animates some old fossils, it is up to Truman and the rest of the gang to track down the dangerous creatures and find out who’s responsible. Copyright 2020 Illustrations designed by Jay Horne ~ Bookflurry, Inc. has reproduced this book with the author’s permission on the world-wide-web for the convenience of his readers. All copyright protections are still in effect. Copying and pasting, screen captures, distribution, etc. is strictly prohibited. ~ Fossil Fuel By: Jay Horne ~ Datson had been a credit to the world of genetic engineering. That was before he picked up his amateur interest in paleontology after retirement. That was also before the Alzheimer’s started taking hold. Now, he was pushing seventy, and the talent he was most proud of was being able to twitch the curls of his mustache independently. That didn’t mean he wasn’t still making great discoveries...