{"id":79411,"date":"2018-06-10T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/jurassic-world-can-we-really-resurrect-a-dinosaur"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:03:13","slug":"jurassic-world-can-we-really-resurrect-a-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/jurassic-world-can-we-really-resurrect-a-dinosaur","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World: Can we really resurrect a dinosaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUaFYzFFbBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This summer, the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise will be on the big screen, reinforcing a love of dinosaurs that has been with many of us since childhood. There is something awe inspiring about the biggest, fiercest, and \u201cdeadest\u201d creatures that have ever walked the planet. But the films have had an additional benefit \u2013 they have sparked an interest in dinosaur DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMr DNA\u201d sequence in the original movie is a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sci-fi-and-jurassic-park-have-driven-research-scientists-say-42864\">great piece of science communication<\/a> and the concept of extracting DNA from the bodies of \u201cdino\u201d blood-engorged mosquitoes is an outstanding piece of fiction. It is, however, just fiction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/06\/jurassic-world-can-we-really-resurrect-a-dinosaur\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/06\/jurassic-world-can-we...a-dinosaur<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise will be on the big screen, reinforcing a love of dinosaurs that has been with many of us since childhood. There is something awe inspiring about the biggest, fiercest, and \u201cdeadest\u201d creatures that have ever walked the planet. But the films have had an additional [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79485,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411\/revisions\/79485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}