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Word: struthiomimus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...take just about any DNA recipe and read off a passable 3-D interpretation of the animal it would create. After a massive amount of digital trial and error, the nerds reckon they have a recipe for a creature that would closely resemble a small, running dinosaur like Struthiomimus ("the ostrich mimic"). The rest is as easy as Dolly the sheep: call up a company that can synthesize the genome, stick it into an enucleated ostrich ovum, implant the same in an ostrich and sit back to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Clone A Dinosaur? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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