Last year, a South Korean and Russian team announced their goal of doing just that. Now, new genetic tools, and well-preserved specimens, could make one 'Jurassic Park'-esque feat a reality: cloning a mammoth. Since then, cloning and genetic technologies have continued to advance, with some researchers turning their attention to extinct species. In 2001, scientists replicated the first endangered species - 'Noah' the guar, a type of threatened ox. Next year's fourth 'Jurassic Park' film, however, will keep the dinos scaly, according to reports - despite what experts say.īack when 'Jurassic Park' debuted, science was still three years away from the arrival of the sheep named 'Dolly,' the first cloned adult animal, and a landmark in cloning technology. If he had, the raptors would have looked too different from the first film, said Jack Horner, a renowned paleontologist at Montana State University and a technical adviser on all the 'Jurassic Park' films. Spielberg made a gesture toward the science by putting a few feathers on his speedy killers in that film, though not as many as the paleontologists requested.
This was suspected even at the time of the 1997 sequel, 'The Lost World,' however.
