Monday, February 5, 2018

Pigments of dinosaur eggs discovered. Will we get closer to bringing back lost species?

Duck egg blue and oviraptor green: study reconstructs colour of dinosaur eggs

A new study of oviraptor eggshell fragments shows remarkable similarities between the reproductive biology of dinosaurs and birds Bird eggs come in a variety of colours. From the creamy and chalky whites in doves and pigeons to spotted yellow lapwing eggs and brown chicken eggs, to the blues of blackbirds and American robins.

 From article, (This is the first time that scientist have reconstructed the colour of dinosaur eggs. While this is astonishing in itself, it has important biological implications as well. 
Based on the peaks observed on the chromatogram and known concentrations of pigments in samples of emu shell and commercially available pigments, the researchers calculated the concentration of pigments in the fossil eggshells. In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.)
Me, "We are getting closer and closer to either recreating dinosaurs (Jurassic Park) past species or creating new species all together, (Planet of the Apes). Think of it this way, we are learning more and more about past species. We know some Dinosaur's skin color, we know their egg color.
All we need is a little past DNA to figure out how to reprogram a present day Bird's egg DNA and wham-mo, created dinosaur. There have already been manipulated Bird DNA to see what would be created."
Me, "What is to stop scientists from recreating a more recent extinct species."
Me, "The point being, do we have the right to recreate extinct species? Do we have the right to create totally new species? I am of the mind that if God did not want us to do this, he would not have allowed us to figure out the science to do it. That being said, I think we should still be careful what we do. What we bring back, or want we create, has to be able to co-exist with man and nature.
Creating all new species or tweaks to present species is no different then a farmer planting a more resilient crop of corn, breeding a better cow for milk and meat or DNA makes a slight mistake. Example of a DNA mistake is: where the brown bear became the arctic white bear.
The only difference is that man would now be helping out, DNA wise, by bringing back, creating an off-shoot, or creating a whole new species that can benefit man, and nature. Natural selection would be reassessed.
There are a lot of species that didn't have to go extinct, (Meteor impacts killed off promising species) from plants, to animals, and recently by man.
We lost a lot of species due to freaks of nature.
The Woolly Mammoth could be used to keep arctic permafrost from releasing CO2, by stepping on snow, to keep snow close to the ground, keeping CO2 from being released. Certain Plants were able to grow fast, and far, into the sky, able to soak up a lot of CO2. Imagine what a Dinosaur burger might taste like. (Only from short vegetarian Dinos. No meat eating dinos allowed.) There are a lot of ancient species out there that could be used in a beneficial way. Imagine a Tuna fish, the size of a whale, that replaces present day Tuna. There are a lot of interesting ideas.
The only limits is finding ancient DNA or playing around with present DNA. "




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