A group of researchers from Harvard and Yale have been working for several years on the reincarnation of dinosaurs using the reverse evolution of birds. Actor Jeff Goldblum, who has played in several films in the Jurassic Park franchise, reacted negatively to this on his Twitter.
16 years have passed since the first film was made, and science has advanced greatly in understanding the evolution of dinosaurs and genetics in general. If in the movie giant lizards were recreated by planting DNA conserved by nature into reptile eggs, then modern scientists plan to reverse the evolution of birds. It is the birds that are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, in contrast to reptiles and amphibians.
The international publication Entrepreneur suddenly began to return to the topic of interest by posting links to previous articles on its Twitter account. Actor Jeff Goldblum, who plays an eccentric and skeptical scientist fighting dinosaurs, reacted immediately. He quoted his character: "Your scientists are so preoccupied with whether they can do something or not that they forget to stop and think if it should be done at all."
The discussion around the post on the social network smoothly moved from jokes and quotes from the films to the discussion, as far as is generally appropriate. Hypothetically, the revival of extinct species can serve to better understand the evolution of both individual animals and entire ecosystems. However, there is no experience of interaction of the extinct fauna with the preserved and changed. Work in this field is reported almost every year.
Vasily Parfenov
