After the velociraptor pet care

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Well, you just know they're bound to clone velociraptors from DNA in amber sometime.
And when (not if) they eat you, who's going to take care of your beloved pets?
 
TjW said:
Well, you just know they're bound to clone velociraptors from DNA in amber sometime.
And when (not if) they eat you, who's going to take care of your beloved pets?
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I'm curious to know how a 15 kilogram, 50 centimetre tall dinosaur is supposed to eat a fully grown human.
 
The question is how do you provide the atmosphere it is used to? There was a much higher percentage of O2 in the atmosphere at that time, perhaps as high as 30%. That would definitely increase the risk of fire compared to what we are used to.
 
TjW said:
Well, you just know they're bound to clone velociraptors from DNA in amber sometime.
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nop... not really... it's been a couple of years since i read about it, but last i read they had not found a blood eating mosquito in amber yet. and if they ever did, chances are there would be only bits and pieces of whatever species the mosquito feed on, all mixed together with the mosquito's own dna. and although they have found perfectly preserved mosquitoes, they have not been able to extract a full strand of mosquito dna, so if the mosquito's dna didn't survive, chances for the dna of its partially digested food don't sound too promising.

so even if they found a Jurassic mosquito with a belly full of blood and a usable dna strand, who knows what specie out of the thousands of possibilities would it be. and if they are ever able to figure out how to clone that, i'm sure someone will come up with a velociraptor muzzle.

cheers
 
TjW said:
Well, you just know they're bound to clone velociraptors from DNA in amber sometime.
And when (not if) they eat you, who's going to take care of your beloved pets?
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Well, do yourself a favor and rest easy.

While I am sure that it will be possible one day to do such a thing as clone long extinct animals, however that day is still quite a while off.

Therefore, please relax about this issue and in the meantime, simply treat science-fiction books and movies as entertainment and do not worry about these cloned animals posing a threat to you and/or your pets.
 
Damien Evans said:
I'm curious to know how a 15 kilogram, 50 centimetre tall dinosaur is supposed to eat a fully grown human.
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If we can get good enough at bioengineering to reconstitute DNA that's tens of millions of years old, then making it bigger would be child's play.
 
Velociraptors were the racoons of their day. Nothing to worry about unless you were injured, they surprised you, they were diseased, or they were starving. As for the claw that everyone's scared of, I've heard some good arguments that it was meant for climbing trees (doesn't mean they wouldn't use it in a fight--a cournered animal will use ANYTHING to survive--just that it's not the part you typically need to be afraid of).

I'd be more worried about the following:

Tyranosaurids (the whole groups)
Utahraptor
Dilophosaurus (who DID NOT have that stupid neck frill)
Carnotaurus
Ankylosaurids
Ceratopsians
Sauropods (yeah, these last three are herbivores; some of the most dangerous animals on Earth today are sauropods)

And if dinosaurs scare you, don't look into the animals of the Pliocene/Pleistocene. Humans actually encountered some of these critters, and it's amazing we survived those encounters! Dinosaurs are cool, but the movie Jurassic Park certainly doesn't do modern thought on the topic justice, and the world produced far more scary things than just the dinos.
 
Damien Evans said:
I'm curious to know how a 15 kilogram, 50 centimetre tall dinosaur is supposed to eat a fully grown human.
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they'd invite their cousins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus
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mrgrouch said:
nop... not really... it's been a couple of years since i read about it, but last i read they had not found a blood eating mosquito in amber yet.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick#Fossil_record

mrgrouch said:
and if they ever did, chances are there would be only bits and pieces of whatever species the mosquito feed on, all mixed together with the mosquito's own dna.
so even if they found a Jurassic mosquito with a belly full of blood and a usable dna strand, who knows what specie out of the thousands of possibilities would it be.
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fanbloodytastic, so instead of a pack of raptors, I can expect an attack from a chimera, part Diplodocus, part Triceratops, part Mosquito and part Tyrannosaur.
I'm gonna get stamped, stabbed, sucked and swallowed
if I can have a few beers and a kebab with that, then thats a typical friday night
:degrin:
 
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The Jurassic Park raptors were actually Deinonychuseseses - Crichton lumped them in with Velociraptor as a larger form of that dinosaur. Then Utahraptor was discovered during filming I think.

As long as you call them 'raptors, you're being correct.
 
A velociraptor is are too small to eat you all by themselves. A utahraptor or deinonychus would be a more likely hazard. Not that this hasn't been said before but I think it bares mentioning because the statement in question is about a specific animal that is too small to take a human is being considered for that position. If you're thinking JP velociraptor that is a misconception where the movie was the one that screwed it up, where as Crichton wedged his way around it in the book by claiming the deinonychus at the time as was set as some form of raptor but tried to still say he was sure, which is how they evaluated the fossils taxonomy at the time.

I may just be repeating what other people have said to a point, but the main idea is that in no way does a lone velociraptor (size: 1.6') have a change of killing some one. In fact, it almost looks like the perfect pet. Just keep the cat out of his way.;)
 
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