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Not clone in the sense of producing an animal identical to the original reptiles. The minuscule amount of dinosaur DNA in a mosquito that had drunk dinosaur blood and became trapped in amber would be too degraded to transcribe fully. But it might eventually be possible to synthesise a plausible dinosaur genome from scratch, using computer simulations to reverse evolution. Such an animal could be bred in vitro and brought to life.
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