We're not going to be able to make a dinosaur based on a dinosaur.

The cradle of the dinosaurs

There's a book called Walking on Eggshells, where they found actual sauropod skin in Patagonia.

The chicken is a dinosaur.

But it's not dinosaur DNA.

He was a true dinosaur!

Tom found a dinosaur egg.

You'd have a big dinosaur and a littler dinosaur.

And so here was the first soft tissue from a dinosaur.

This is a replica of a dinosaur's egg.

You know, how why would a kid want a dinosaur?

And this is a you know, the purple dinosaur with kind of bloat wear.

And you could actually find full fossil evidence of these.

Jack Horner Building a dinosaur from a chicken

The little girl said that she saw the statue of the dinosaur move.

You can call it a dinosaur, but look at the velociraptor the velociraptor is cool.

I bought this computer one year ago and it's already a dinosaur.

Coming face to face with a dinosaur was a funny experience.

I wanted to be a paleontologist, a dinosaur paleontologist, and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur.

So we don't have to make a dinosaur because we already have them.

And I have been fortunate enough to find things like the first eggs in the Western hemisphere and the first baby dinosaurs in nests, the first dinosaur embryos and massive accumulations of bones.

Now if you want dinosaur DNA, I say go to the dinosaur.

The Mongolian dinosaur was sold in New York for a million dollars.

So I said, OK, let's try to do this dinosaur project.

So I picked a Camarasaurus, because the Camarasaurus was the most abundant of the sauropods in North America.

Suchosaurus (meaning crocodile lizard ) is as a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from Cretaceous England, originally believed to be a genus of crocodile.

Now mostly tails limit maneuverability, like this human inside this dinosaur suit.

Telmatosaurus (meaning marsh lizard ) is a genus of basal hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

Back in 1993 when the movie came out, we actually had a grant from the National Science Foundation to attempt to extract DNA from a dinosaur, and we chose the dinosaur on the left, a Tyrannosaurus rex, which was a very nice specimen.

So we have discovered that dinosaur DNA, and all DNA, just breaks down too fast.

And then Stygimoloch, another dinosaur from the same age, lived at the same time, has spikes sticking out the back of its head.

The theme of this story is building a dinosaur, and so we come to that part of Jurassic Park.

The crazy idea is we're going to try to clone a dinosaur as much as we can with today's technology.

This other material was described more recently, making Amurosaurus the most abundant and completely known Russian dinosaur.

It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

But cutting into the bones of a dinosaur is hard to do, as you can imagine, because in museums bones are precious.

Now, I tried to suture together a dinosaur evolutionary history so that we can try to understand some basic patterns of evolution.

For Sterling Nesbitt, it is an exceptional find Dinosaur fossils from the Triassic period are extremely rare. Mostly, only individual fragments are found.

The dinosaur was not big like I had imagined last night, but it was green, with red and yellow scales and a very friendly face.

Those shadows appeared in a way like giant dinosaurs, with a long neck and a very big jaw without teeth.

We're working on also simpler technology, not that complex, with younger people and also older people, like this dinosaur is from Mexico.

Now as you can imagine, cutting open a leg bone is one thing, but when you go to a museum and say, You don't mind if I cut open your dinosaur's skull do you?

And I guess you inject it into maybe an ostrich egg, or something like that, and then you wait, and, lo and behold, out pops a little baby dinosaur.

The roof looks like a prehistoric lizard's spine, the staircase reminds of a dinosaur backbone and balconies are open fish mouths.

This small, primitive dinosaur is actually more interesting to science in many ways than its larger, more famous relatives because it teaches us more about evolution.