Could we find a frozen dinosaur?
While it may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, the answer is no, we have not yet found any dinosaurs frozen in ice. However, there have been some pretty amazing findings in the world of paleontology and archaeology that come close.
It's the same place where Hammer and colleagues found Antarctica's first dinosaur in 1990 — the 22-foot, meat-eating Cryolophosaurus, or "frozen crested reptile." Hammer found more parts of that dinosaur as well as a large sauropod, or plant-eater, resembling a diplodocus, and the new, as-yet-undescribed ornithischian.
Normally DNA becomes unreadable after half a million years, but we've got readable DNA from a deep-frozen mammoth after a million years. But the non-avian dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, so it's doubtful whether even deep-frozen DNA could last that long.
2 Answers. Possibly - but neither dinosaurs nor woolly mammoths. Antarctica froze over about 34 million years ago, which is long after extinction of the dinosaurs (other than their avian descendants) some 60 million years ago. However glacial movement severely restricts where any such might be found.
The well-preserved remains come from an Edmontosaurus specimen nicknamed Dakota, which was unearthed on a ranch in southwestern North Dakota in 1999. The duck-billed herbivore lived about 67 million years ago and was nearly 40 feet long.
Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
The most complete specimen was FMNH PR 2081, also known as Sue the Dinosaur. Sue is a 90 percent complete fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex recovered in 1990.
Ultimately though, we need intact DNA to resurrect species. So, although scientists have made a lot of progress, the prospect remains in the realm of science fiction.
The oldest DNA fragments recovered are only 800,000 years old, so dinosaur cloning is probably impossible. True cloning also requires an intact, living cell and it has only ever been successful using a host animal of the same species. That rules out mammoth cloning too.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it's a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon.
Does Antarctica have dinosaurs?
In 1990-91, scientists made the first discoveries of dinosaur fossils in the central Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. A site on Mt. Kirkpatrick, near the Beardmore Glacier, yielded the bones of Cryolophosaurus ellioti, a species wholly new to science.
Answer and Explanation: When dinosaurs first evolved, the continents of the Earth were combined into a single continent called Pangaea. There were no flowering plants on the planet as angiosperms did not evolve until 125 million years ago, more than 100 million years after dinosaurs first evolved.
"Our results demonstrate that dinosaurs in the northern hemisphere lived in extreme heat, when average summer temperatures hovered around 27 degrees. As such, one can well imagine that there were summer days when temperatures crept above 40 degrees.
Paleontologists in Alberta uncovered the well-preserved skeleton of a young Gorgosaurus, or a sleek tyrannosaur that prowled the area around 75 million years ago. Within what would have been the dinosaur's body cavity were the dismembered remains of two smaller, parrot-like dinosaurs that lived in the same habitat.
What's far more unheard of, however, is fossilized dinosaur skin. In 2011, paleontologists unearthed a near-complete Borealopelta markmitchelli, a type of four-legged ankylosaur fossil. The fossil preserved some of its spikes, armor, stomach contents and most importantly, the skin on its face.
Venczel (2023) describes new fossil material of Diplocynodon kochi from the Eocene Transylvanian Basin (Romania), extending known fossil record of this species to four new localities.
God told Noah, “And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female” (Genesis 6:19). A few small dinosaurs would have been on the ark. The larger species of dinosaurs were probably young and smaller on the ark.
Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Prof Paul Barrett, a dinosaur researcher at the Museum, explains what is thought to have happened the day the dinosaurs died.
The closest living relatives of ALL dinosaurs are the crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators, gharials).
It's extremely rare to find a complete skeleton of a dinosaur. It's rarer still that such a skeleton needs to be found twice. Such is the fate of “Stan” the T. rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton of one of the most legendary species of dinosaurs known to Earth.
Has a full body of at rex been found?
A Rare Find in Montana
The entire skeleton, now known as the Wankel T. rex, was excavated and displayed at the Museum of the Rockies. In 2013 it was prepared for its journey to Washington, D.C., where it is on loan to the National Museum of Natural History for the next 50 years.
Birds: Birds are the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction event 65 million years ago.
Just like you're a direct descendant of your grandparents, birds are the only remaining direct descendants of dinosaurs. But I suppose what you're really asking is whether dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops could ever exist again. Although that would be fascinating, the answer is almost definitely no.
The answer to the megalodon question is a resounding NO. Megalodon went extinct around 3.5 million years ago.
It's highly unlikely that a group of 100 modern humans would be able to survive in the Jurassic period. The Jurassic period, which lasted from about 201 to 145 million years ago, was vastly different from the present day in terms of climate, geography, and the types of flora and fauna that existed.
