The Most CONTROVERSIAL Tyrannosaur Discovery Ever Made? - Could Jurassic Park Actually Happen?

Soft tissue from the fossils of a T.rex were discovered in 2005 that lead to a controversial find that turned the paleontology world on its head and also rose discussion on the creation of a real life Jurassic Park.
#JurassicPark #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

[@GojiCenter]

This makes me think.. there's no way this can only happen with just a T-Rex skeleton especially given how scarce T-rex fossils are

[@anthonypolonkay2681]

It's not. There's an ever growing list of soft tissue remnants in fossils. Not only that but even DNA in a hadrosaur fossil was found. Now it was highly degraded, with segments of only 6 base pairs long at a time being preserved. Never the less DNA cannot last thar long, if for no other reason than nuclear decay from the DNA itself. There's no protective coating, or preservation method that will keep DNA from decaying completely after a few thousand years.

[@PackHunter117]

Now I want them to find more blood proteins for all the Theropods like Acro, Giga, Yutyrannus, Daspleto, Torvo, etc etc etc.

[@Ring3R]

Extremely unlikely. First, T-rex has a ton of material assigned to it, probably more than any therapod other than Allosaurus. Allosaurus was further in time from T-rex than T-rex is from us. T-rex is probably the best-case-scenario, since it lived right up until the extinction event. It's the "youngest" non-bird therapod known. The only other animals where this kind of thing could conceivably happen are animals that lived around the same time, and only then in particularly thick bones. Maybe a triceratops. Probably some south american sauropods. Maybe an edmontosaurus femer. Anything older and I'm sure time would already have stripped all of this away.

[@Morte_n]

T-Rex is an rather common dinosaur if you're taking a closer look. Compared to most dinosaurs which only are described by 1-2 finds and mostly bone fragments or just teeth we got T-Rex which we have over 40! and nearly compleat ones. So yeah... T-Rex isn't that rare if you want to be precise. :)

[@lokiman2256]

This makes me think what possibilities exist with ancient human fossilized DNA. Could we recreate our hominid ancestors using long thought impossible methods of DNA extraction? If it’s theoretically possible to recreate a mammoth why not a Neanderthal ?

[@SonicXAmy121Gamer]

In Jurassic World during the scene where Zack and Grey are about to go on the gyrosphere ride, it’s a little hard to hear but Zack does make reference to this with the iron preserving DNA in case the amber mines ever dried up.

[@anthonypolonkay2681]

Biggest problem concerning the iron model is its lack of any evidence. Not only is the hemoglobin in soft tissue remains in very good condition. (That is to say not spread around at all) and over all iron concentrations in the tissues as they would normally be (to low to matter in terms of preservation) But the only experiment done to date to try to validate the iron model done by Schweitzer and her team was conducted terribly. Specifically the evaluation of the end products was only done strictly on a visual basis of "how preserved did it look" no chemistry, or spectroscopy was employed determine any degreadtory status between samples.

[@brianp6859]

​@Anthony Polonkay honestly I just think dinosaurs and fossils aren't as old as they think. Maybe not 6000 years young but not 65 million years either. It would explain the survival of these cells a bit better

[@NicholasJ-]

I actually heard this!!

[@zer0deaths862]

Fun fact: the Tyrannosaurus Rex is from the Cretaceous period and not the Jurassic period. The top predator from the Jurassic period was the Allosaurus.

[@mbern4530]

Another fun fact: There is more time between Stegosaurus and T-rex than between T-rex and us.

[@Ray-c1r]

Allosaurus is like, this some bullshit, this should be my movies

[@exypnosaurus5079]

"The top predator from the Jurassic period was the Allosaurus." Saurophaganax has never seen such bull**** before.

[@bobcat24]

@@exypnosaurus5079Right? These niggas haven’t kept up with science since Big Al’s Ballad back in 2000. I swear, these old demented cats been in a damn coma since then.

[@Ray-c1r]

@@exypnosaurus5079 putting respect on the allosaurus name, damm Skippy. One love to my dude Utah Raptor...rex n veloco get all the fame n spotlight cuz of jo

[@jamesvarela233]

“Life Finds a Way” and Life will surprise us in many ways (Man I love Ian Malcolm’s life finds a way qoute so much, fits right into everything)

[@Masonjar94]

The mammoth thing is happening, I follow a couple biology podcasts that have talked about it

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Trapped in Amber? Resident Evil 4: I’m gonna reference that

[@keegantripp1245]

In this man’s opinion I’d rather do it than not, as with cloning something like t-Rex would be groundbreaking of the century. Not only from a scientific perspective, but from a human and biblical standpoint as well. Next just think of the animals we could bring back like sabertooth cats or ancient deer and other creatures.

[@windowsVD]

Seems like we’ve learned nothing from the Jurassic Park film itself. 😩

[@keegantripp1245]

@@windowsVD I can see a market for this, as it would be a safari/hunting only game preserve as to allow the animals not genetically modified to be easier to handle, such as a pigmi t-Rex or triceratops. Still dangerous but not on the scale of the genetically engineered accurate dinosaurs. Which would be treated as the dangerous animals they are and be studied or hunted at distance. Such things as cloning would only go on until a healthy population has been established, which would be kept in check by hunting. What JP always did and admonished was wanting to create an animal park, while showing hostility towards humans hunting the dinosaurs. In the real world hunting has become a very real demographic to helping keep animal populations healthy and safe. The reintroduction of wolves and elk in Yellowstone and the State of Michigan, which got both. Wolves in the park helped keep the elk population in check, and the wolves in Michigan and elsewhere near the Great Lakes have contributed to a good healthy population in which hunting is only recently begun. The elk have also contributed greatly to a hunting population, albeit in Michigan it has yet to become a big enough population for hunters to hunt them every year as the state does a raffle contest to hunt the elk. Something similar can work for dinosaurs, as long as they’re in a habitat that is suitable. I’m more favorable to doing that in Africa and not continental America for multiple reasons, but it could work.

[@rustyshaklferd1897]

The air was completely different than it is now. The lower oxygen concentration alone would prohibit anything from that time to survive in today’s atmosphere. Unless you put a space suit on it.

[@jabbarmuhammad8804]

You can't bring dinosaurs back so they bring back some mammoths

[@peterversionone]

Love how the news wants the animals cloned. No, no no no. Leave them be

[@Kirious]

I think at the end of the day, we can never _truly_ know what the world was like back then and how old (or not) things are, simply because we ourselves were not alive back then. On top of that, historical texts from thousands of years ago (aside the Bible, Roman, Egyptian, etc. stuff) are so few and far between that it’s just hard to piece things together. I believe it’s very important to have differing opinions because that is THE number one way we humans have made breakthrough discoveries, and as you said, many Christians have spearheaded those discoveries, just as anyone else! We’ve not been pursuing this science for long enough to know the _true_ effects of gradual change over time (and how processes speed up or slow down at certain stages) and how long it takes for things to fossilize in the way they have. So, like much of science, it all comes down to theory- and that’s why I believe that, again, it’s so important to leave room for differing opinions, no matter how ridiculous our pride may cause us to think they are. I could go on for hours about scientific studies and evidence as to why it’s very much possible that the earth is quite young, and that the biblical flood was THE extinction event that wiped out many of the large creatures on this earth, and the cause of many of the incredible natural geographical wonders of our earth, but at the same time, I do understand where other people come from with believing the earth is very old. At the end of the day, it’s all such incredible stuff and we all have a love for the earth and its mysterious and beautiful history, and I wholeheartedly believe that it’s very important that we work together and respect and love each other despite our beliefs because of that. We’re all human. Science is just theory for the most part. We need to swallow our pride and act like it if we ever want to move forward. Loved the video, btw, Klayton 😄🦖

[@BBLeviathan-Gaming]

And that right there puts you head and shoulders above other creationists. You didn’t go into mindless rants acting like there hasn’t been 150 years since Darwin published his book, you acknowledge other cultures and documents existed, you didn’t go into a rant about how Darwin was wrong, you didn’t act like one book was a perfect example, quote outdated and proven wrong statements as fact, etc. Thank you for being an actual example of an open minded and accepting person and not dragging this woman’s name through the mud yet again and not misrepresenting or outright lying to preserve an outdated narrative. And no that not sarcasm, sorry if it comes across as that. Just tired of having these people have their life’s work insulted, misrepresented, lied about and ignored in favor of (Darwin dumb and bad. God only good) type of views.

[@Kirious]

@@BBLeviathan-Gaming thank you! I try not to compare though, and at the end of the day we’re all trying to figure out things and make sense of it in our heads. Some people just take it too far and that’s their burden to bear, we all have our flaws haha

[@TheGreatTave]

I love love love Jurassic Park. I love watching all my dino critters get fed goats and lounge around in Jurassic World Evolution. I can't wait for another Jurassic Park movie or video game. But I never EVER want to see anyone clone a dinosaur. These creatures do not need to be brought back to life, because the world has changed way too much for that, and I'm already not even a big fan of zoos to be honest. Anywho, love your content Klayton. Would like to hear what you thought of 65, I found it to be a decent movie, nothing amazing like the OG Jurassic Park, but also WAAAAAAAAY better than Dominion.

[@MrStrangermoon]

6:05 skelaton action scene look more cooler than trex tissue.

[@jahblo666]

Keep great videos like this one coming, Klayton!

[@rex-rant4322]

I think the best discovery for me was when they found out this animal didn't have feathers. Im glad because it would've looked a little too weird for me.

[@dalleravn]

it is difficult to be scientific accurate..... i mean scientific accurate, is not that accurate.

[@atomiccandyboy5756]

I'm happy to know more people not being afraid of say: I'm Christian but am full on about the truth of the past. As a Christian the Genesis is full of holes to me, like a lot of history is missing, I love how science and archeological research is filling those holes and helping to re build long lost story of animal kind and human kind

[@wallineric]

I'll never forget when that was all over the news. As a dinosaur nut that was a really exciting time.

[@BenspidermanH]

While i am a Christian and someone who loves dinosaurs and Jurassic Park. I agree with the young earth Creation world view and i believe the Scripturs support it. It's not essential to agree with that view to be a Christian because the book of Genesis isn't even about Creation vs Evolution its about redemption. Because that’s what the whole Bible is about. It is also more specifically about redemption accomplished through Jesus Christ God the Son who took on flesh, lived a perfect sinless life, died for our sins on a cross that we may have forgiveness for our sins, was buried for three days and rose from the dead on the third day so that we may have life and righteousness through Him. Believing that is all that is required to be a Christian. How you view the creation of the world is not.

[@MrMfloor]

A professor at California State University Northridge was fired for talking about flesh in a dinosaur he dug up

[@eaglehood224]

I really hope that if a zoo-type thing does happen with this type of discovery, please don't have "more teeth". I just want more animals.

[@Papag53]

Here we go...Jurassic Park 12

[@lokiman2256]

I personally believe that science has virtually no limits. I think the laws of physics are pretty sound universally but who knows I’ve never left this planet and seen what else exists in our universe. Because of this I don’t think there are limits in how far humanity can progress biological science. The limits we come across are only time constraints imo. This soft tissue discovery is proof to me of that theory. Eventually as our equipment and understanding improves we will break the barriers we previously thought impossible to overcome. All of that said I think just like in Jurassic park we will be faced with ethical issues that perhaps should hinder our advancement of science… when we learn how to alter and recreate genetic structures it will fundamentally change the world as we know it. We as fans tend to see what we want.. by this I mean that this type of science will be used for good or altruistic purposes.. not to alter the human genome to the further exasperation of natural inequality among us. I fear a future where those with access and wealth/power use the science of genetics to create superior offspring.. in this future science would enable the creation of literal superior beings.. better than the rest of us in every singe way down to their cellular structure and immunology. This I believe is the ethical dark side that exists behind the surface of our beloved Jurassic park. While I would love to believe that we do this science purely out of desire for good outcomes, I cannot shake the feeling that any discovery in the field of genetics brings us closer to that ethical darkness.. to the blasphemy of eugenics.

[@KurooTheEditor]

The Bible mentions dinosaurs well leviathans and it sounds like a dinosaur to me lol

[@rogerhuffmanjr.7695]

I love your channel and I'm a huge Crichton and Jurassic Park fan but I'm also a YEC so feel compelled to speak on this. As a Christian I think it is most imperative to keep trying to take everyone's words in their full context. Unfortunately however there is growing negligence and brutality on both sides of this debate, and it ought not to be so. I welcome civil exchanges that challenge our ways of thinking. Personally I wish that some of my fellow creationists would adapt and change some of their arguments in exchange for better ones. I know are better arguments because I've heard them. I do know that there are some counter-arguments to be made with the iron argument but I don't know enough to personally address those points, though I welcome honest discussions. The main focus of my writing is to say this: if you believe in God, if you believe that He created, then by default you would have to be either an Old Earth Creationist or a Young Earth Creationist... and whenever we have conflicting ideas and opinions I think we need to remember to not demonize one another but listen to one another because, confirmation bias aside, there are reasons why we have reached the conclusions that we have about certain topics and issues and although I do believe there are bad characters and pseudo evidences on both sides I no longer feel animosity towards listening to objections that I disagree with because I've tried to have the mentality that we want to know the truth, not what we want to make it but what it actually is. Sometimes therefore in the grand scheme of things we interpret things differently. One thing that I have taken away from Michael Crichton concerning the scientific community and scientific consensus in general is that what we think to be true today will probably be laughed at tomorrow. I think if we can remember that mentality, it will lead to better more honest and genuine debates. And I will leave you with this, this comes from me. I love debate because it gives us the opportunity to listen one another and root out logic from fallacy. Listen to your proponents logic and hear your own fallacies.

[@rhinoxsaurus3560]

Everyone prepare for the T.rex meatballs

[@ollie46867]

Ik Lamo

[@eddiehoplight2003]

Or brontosaurus ribs 😂

[@infini.tesimo]

Ew. Ew. And ultra ew.

[@tanos857]

​@desperateneedofscotch Oh, I thought he was talking about consumable Trex meat balls 😅

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Tyrannosaur meat would be extremely toxic. Hard pass

[@MrLynamYT]

“Don’t worry, I’m not making the same mistakes again” “No your making all new ones”

[@alexandrumircea]

Amen

[@jozie2114]

Lol

[@lokiman2256]

Oddly enough I think the strongest lessons the Jurassic series has taught us are moral and ethical ones. At least for me the quote that personifies the entire franchise is when Dr. Malcolm says’ “your scientists were so caught up with whether they could they didn’t stop to think whether they should.” This I believe is a central theme in the movies that we would do well to learn from.

[@JiminyClarkson]

Like grammatical mistakes?

[@MrLynamYT]

@@JiminyClarkson yes

[@jaredmc7982]

I actually met Mary Schweitzer several years when at a Dino Fest event! Had a brief but really good chance to speak with her about her research. Aside from the renmants of iron proteins in their blood cells, they were also among the medulary tissues that ovulating female archosaurs deposit in their femurs in preparation for the minerals needed for egg shells. So B-rex was pregnant at time of her death. Also, B-rex is actually 68-million years old, which makes it one of the oldest T. rex specimens yet discovered! So that now raises the potential about what could be found in many other rex specimens we have in museums or still in the ground? Also, they have found the exact same tissues in a specimen of teenage Allosaurus and Tenontosaurus too! So these tissues have been shown capable of surviving for over 150-million years! Plus, these tissues have been found in both Theropoda and Ornithischia, so far, which means we should expect to find some in Sauropod limb bones too!

[@byzantineroman2407]

Brosky

[@velociraptor4you3291]

That's _awesome (😃)!_

[@zubiayasar1945]

Ummmmmm what.......?

[@zubiayasar1945]

Just kidding I know waht you mean

[@raptorrixx99-wv2hl]

*Hears Allosaurus* I'm listening...🤨

[@brendandulaca3147]

Dino Breakout or not, I'd absolutely love to visit a real life Jurassic Park and see a living T-Rex!! It'd be the ultimate activity to scratch off my bucket list.

[@thedirectorschair1054]

Probably want to make sure it's the last activity on your bucket list because of the strong precedent that anything after that won't get fulfilled.

[@peabrain6872]

T. Rex, if it was referenced to irl and not in jp

[@BattleBrotherCasten]

Dinosaurs cant be as old as we're told...they test the sediment that fossilized the bones not the actual bones..or am I dumb or smart? this discovery though makes me feel I am right no way tens of millions of years DNA would still be able to be found.

[@gridone769]

I'd love to get eaten by one. That's on my bucket list.

[@raptorrixx99-wv2hl]

I wouldn't 😰 Unless it was a Trike.... Me like Trikes 🙃

[@shainewhite2781]

Michael Crichton said in an interview that it might happen, but it's just a matter of when.

[@Mallettt123]

It is so reassuring to know that there are fellow Christians who also have a fascination with science, particularly prehistoric earth. Too long have I been afraid to reveal my faith to other scientifically minded people, for fear of ridicule. Keep the faith friends and keep on learning! 🙏

[@st8lion]

the majority of scientists believe in a god whether it be an Abrahamic one or a cosmic one. some believe that the universe was created by a simulation and we are simply comparable to the sims. also science was pioneered by the church in medieval times as a way to try to better understand gods creations to further our relationship with god.

[@ed056]

I highly suggest St. Pope JohnPaul II's Encyclical: "Of Faith and Reason". It is a fine logical response to the modern Know Nothings that inhabit academia.

[@Mallettt123]

@@ed056 well thats added to my book shopping list, thank you!

[@rosewhite---]

@@ed056 Popes are Satan's slaves.

[@sircrocodile3749]

Life Finds a Way

[@manniken.]

As you so eloquently said - john hammond jurassic park the lost world

[@yourstruly4817]

More like "life uh, life uh finds a way"

[@manniken.]

@Yours Truly don't you think at times like this extinct animals should stay extinct

[@LBTElectricDinoOnline]

Awesome video Klayton and Nice work analyzing this controversial tyrannosaur discovery in the Jurassic franchise and I pretty much agree with you on this controversial tyrannosaur discovery. Nice video Klayton and as always, Take It Easy and Life Finds A Way with this.

[@andarudesandstorm1135]

There was a discovery of T-Rex living in groups. For a long time or at least when I was growing up. Like Sarah Harding said in Lost World, The T-Rex was perceived as a vicious rogue that would abandon it's young at the earliest opportunity but recent evidence shows a different story. Pretty cool stuff

[@stephenhobbs5883]

Yes I saw the same thing about them running in packs.

[@LisaCoffee-i4s]

I'm not sure how scientists could have held such a belief. Baby T-Rexes were quite small, making them vulnerable to predators. Additionally, moving in groups typically enhances survival chances...

[@Ray-c1r]

A clan of T Rex's

[@jackstraw4222]

@@LisaCoffee-i4s later reports showed they grew really fast...cant recall the exact measurements but within a few yrs they would be bigger than most things....by 16-18 they were pretty much adult size.

[@kavehthephantomboy]

This one didn't have DNA but another dinosaur from hadrosaur group which is much more older than the t-rex, the Hypacrosaurus is possibly the first dinosaur to be found with DNA-like remains, I'm not sure but i think DNA remains have been found from a hatchling specimen, make a video about this Klayton, it's not as famous as B-rex.

[@GanonGhidorah]

I remember this study... I was excited to hear about it, because it meant that we _actually had the DNA,_ now all we needed was the technology... But at this point in my life, I had moved these thoughts from my head. And now... ...I'd rather not get my hopes up... ...I'd rather not have any hope at all...

[@ollie46867]

I would love if they brought back dinosaurs no matter the way and how much a ticket costs but the trex would have to be named Rexy

[@BubblyToast]

Your comment at the end about T-Rex and lips. Did it, or did it not? I don’t know but JP is a film franchise. “Rule of cool” and “Artists interpretation” will always win out. Rexy in the films is insanely “Cut” and “shredded” for her size compared to how she probably looked. The JP franchise does, especially upon my re-reading of the novels, a great way of taking sci-fi and real world science and making it sound plausible and grounded in reality. I also absolutely love series like Prehistoric Planet that uses all the science available and make it as real as they can. Anyway keep up the great work! Love the videos!

[@cchavezjr7]

I'm not a Christian, yet I always wondered why to so many, to God, why is not all possible? Not trying to be argumentative, but all options should be open to any person of religion.

[@Mindwipe.superior]

Recently I finished the Jurassic park novel.I love how there was 2 tyranasaurs and I can’t wait to read the lost world.

[@noahfoley5576]

Even with all the controversy it is really exciting how many new developments there are

[@Mule-chezedek]

The reaction from this discovery is very telling. Something that should've been one of the most exciting and important finds in archeology, was met with fear, doubt and threats. More worried about disrupting the established story, before entertaining the idea of questioning themselves in any way. Idk why people act like this is a case closed situation.

[@euphoriatoast]

Because real truth is unpopular, much like how Glen Cuban went down to the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Texas with an iron pole and smashed to pieces the infilled human footprints that overlapped dinosaur tracks. In case you don't know who he is, he's the guy that won the "Humanist of the Year" award for explaining the human footprints in dinosaur strata as nothing more than eroded dinosaur tracks. However, the human track depressions overlapping the infilled dinosaur tracks were special and Glen Cuban understood this. The reason the infilled tracks are special is the material that fills the tracks is harder than the material the track is set in, so as the material surrounding the track erodes, the harder infill stands out sharper and clearer as it is more resistant to erosion. So what that does is create a sort of raised 3D track rather than an eroded hole in the rock, and when you have a human footprint over lapping the infill, it makes an incredibly strong case for it being an actual human footprint instead of an eroded dinosaur track. They have also found human footprints in Russia so this is not some anomaly, it's real and it's being covered up. I recommend you watch the video "Don Patton - Record of the Rocks". It contains evidence that is literally set in stone and is absolutely fascinating.

[@daMillenialTrucker]

@@euphoriatoast or how theres only 2 genders :D

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Yeah no. That’s definitely the lost exciting discovery. Unless we find a perfect T. rex mummy. Nothing will top that one. Know what I find kinda hilarious? The lip thing is not new at all. Look at older dinosaur media and paleontological presentation and T. rex always had lips. In fact- I think Jurassic Park is one of the first depiction of them without.

[@cjalexanderjr8811]

One cool T. rex discovery is that they did NOT have feathers according to fossils of skin impressions.

[@Kajojek]

Dicovered Skin impression i so tiny that it absolutely doesn't prove anything but the fact that t rex had scales . T rex most likely had feathers and scales

[@cjalexanderjr8811]

@@Kajojek - the impressions only found scales. Just like carnotaurus - no feathers.

[@Kajojek]

@CJ Alexander Jr it was the size if a coin. Proofs absolutely nothing but the fact that t rex had scales. It doesn't disprove feathers. It's simply unknown at this time. You can make educated guess based on the fact that t rex ancestors were fully feathered .

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Actually many scientists do believe that T rex did have feathers, not only did the cousin of the Tyrannosaurus, Dilong Paradoxus had a thin coat of feathers, in fact many advanced theropods had showed evidence of having feathers, so it's thought all advanced theropods have a ranging amount of feathers or feather like structures. Many scientists believe that young T-Rex was covered in down feather like fuzz for warmth, but lost the majority of the feathers as they grew leaving a mohawk like formation of proto feathers on their head, neck, and down their back towards the tail.

[@cjalexanderjr8811]

@@Kajojek - I commented twice and both times my comment disappeared (maybe because I included a link?). Anyway, more skin impressions were found (larger than a coin) and still no indication of feathers.

[@danielmalinen6337]

What are your thoughts on whether or not real blood was found in the Apatosaurus fossil in its liquid and fresh form? I myself am skeptical about that claim, which is already a few years old now, and I doubt that the blood was from a researcher and not from the fossil, especially since there has been no news about it since then and this so-called discovery of "fresh sauropod blood" disappeared from the media as quickly as the claim had appeared.

[@raptorrixx99-wv2hl]

*W h a t.*

[@brianp6859]

Could be two possibilities: 1) it was just researcher blood and was a very embarrassing situation or 2) it was actually liquid dino blood which could not possibly be explained by our current model/age of dinosaurs and thus it was hidden, destroyed or simply ridiculed out of existence.

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

Liquid blood. lol. That didnt happen. You cant even find your blood from when you cut your knee all those years ago. Blood Clots. In exceptionally rare cases the IRON in the blood can survive (in effect). BLOOD has never been found. Im not even sure you can get blood out of a dead Mammoth.

[@garypfeiffer3489]

I know some Edmontosaurus skeletons & that of baby sauropods, Hadrosaurus, Triceratops & Ceolophysus have preserved skin mummified with the bones & some feathered dinosaurs show us the color of their feathers. Why does No one talk about the neck skins on the lower necks on some Stegosaurus skeletons?

[@amorrow1983]

Something I realized later in my life, regarding my beliefs & the world around me; don’t try to change Scripture in a way that fits today’s science. Instead, start with Holy Scripture as the source, and fit the reality of our universe into it. The question’s answer does not require a choice between Science and Christianity. It’s just a matter of where do you start and end, and which do you prioritize if there is a moment of contention between the two.

[@PaganCurse98]

All I'm going to say is, your job and religion should stay separate however, until the religion in question is attacked by your job. For example I'm a Norse pagan and certain jobs ask you to have your hair cut.

[@UnknownLighhouseKeeper]

Favorite T-Rex discovery: The Alaskan T-Rexes and there relation ship to other Rex’s and the colder weather dinosaurs. I found this on PBS which I thought was really interesting and cool

[@brockschannel3927]

In my reimagining of Jurassic Park, Dinosaur DNA was obtained from the bones of Dinosaurs that survived the KT extinction by taking up residence in massive cave systems. The Dinosaurs eventually died off around the last ice age and their DNA was preserved by the cold,damp environment of the caves.

[@dilophosaurusking7437]

Utterly terrible take My god have mercy on your wretched soul

[@borisbauwens7133]

That's just the plot of Ice Age 3.

[@brockschannel3927]

@@borisbauwens7133 I'm basing it off an alleged find where a Dinosaur took refuge in a cave from the kpg extinction and died. It's silly,but more plausible than preserved blood in mosquitoes in amber.

[@MrWhatdafuBOOM]

​@@borisbauwens7133 I don't think you know what a plot is.

[@1MoreTurn]

@@MrWhatdafuBOOM He stated a fact.

[@digunder14]

christian dino fans that can still be objective and not view them as automatically contradicting or conflicting, UNITE!

[@willythedinoguy5803]

Idk about cloning dinosaurs. I agree that it would be incredible to see something like these animals in the flesh, but I get the feeling that they would immediately be exploited in some way.

[@Master_Yoda1990]

But I want a dinosaur Safari

[@shadowfox8748]

I’m all for bringing back tyrannosaurs and putting it in Africa. Let’s do this people

[@DragonFae16]

Did you know that no lizard or bird has ever been cloned? The reason is that finding the ova cell within the yolk is currently impossible. Maybe one day there will be some way to do it, but currently, there isn't.

[@derekdreke4990]

Interesting

[@M1GarandMan3005]

Hey Klayton, just last Friday my local symphony orchestra just played Jurassic Park in Concert, and it was awesome!!!

[@jenniferkovalick2959]

I remember when that happened! It was absolutely fascinating! The things we could learn from actual soft tissue of an extinct species is amazing! We could have a lot more accurate information about them.

[@Mobius118]

Gotta admit, your continually well reasoned approach and discussion always brings a smile to my face. Thanks for making such a stellar channel with such awesome content

[@phaiz55]

If we can clone a Rex we should do it. 100% full send.

[@rex7471094]

Hey, Klayton! Longtime fan here, was wondering if you might do a video on the possibility of an HBO series based on the novel Jurassic Park. I would absolutely love to see a very accurate portrayal of the novel, with full horror and gore present. Would be a great way to have some of that nostalgia but also present Jurassic Park in a whole new light. Thanks!

[@kavehthephantomboy]

I think more recently i had heard that another t-rex fossil has been discovered with soft tissue and this time the animal was a pregnant t-rex.

[@procow2274]

What pasta would you use with t rex meatballs?

[@antediluvian2380]

Yep, it is unfortunate, the vast majority of Americans are neo-Pentecostal Protestants, even paleontologists.

[@unholypepe]

everybody says that we could but nobody asks if we should

[@michaelcurtin524]

Let's hope we don't get a real life Jurassic Park, to paraphrase Ian Malcolm we're spending so much time thinking if we can do this we need think if we should do this

[@sython3582]

No. No no no. No no no no no no NO. You do not clone a tyrannosaurus and create a real life Jurassic Park. It's already been established that that's a bad idea.

[@Welcometojp11]

Yeah, totally😅

[@LeoTheYuty]

great video

[@tylernormand7561]

Klayton - as a whole-hearted Christian and lover of dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, and your channel, thank you for handling the subject of faith carefully. EDIT: my original comment was typed before hearing you are a Christian too. That's awesome dude! I completely agree with you - the "line in the sand" between science and faith is an often silly and imaginary one created by people who want to intellectually butt heads, when in fact many of the scientist who have and still do pave the way are of some faith in a creator/designer. I could go on all day about this - just excited to hear your perspective!

[@lukefranz2949]

As a christian and believer in a young earth, I am still amazed how archaeology alone corroborates the bible. Even though modern paleontology does fit with my beliefs, I still find dinosaurs to be really cool. Thank-you so much for being respectful of the faith, I have encountered too many mockeries of the bible when concerning dinosaurs.

[@byzantineroman2407]

There is so much evidence for the Faith that those who can see even a fraction of it, yet remain in denial have anathematized themselves.

[@KamenRiderGumo]

I, too, am a Christian, and find that "line in the sand" to be silly. There is no reason that the Earth can't be billions of years old. Never saw a reason for the fight, other than, as you said, people LOOKING for a fight. I mean, yes, Genesis says God made the Earth in six days. But what is a "day" to God, to a being who exists on a plane so far removed from our own? He would have told it all to Adam, of course, and Adam would have handed it down to his children and their children after that, but language and context change from retelling to retelling. It was not actually written down until the time of Moses, and there have been translation and retranslations in the millennia after that. We will never know for sure in this life, and in the long run whether the Earth is four thousand or four billion years old simply does not matter - God made it all, and as long as we are giving Him the glory and the acknowledgement, the exact point WHEN it happened is not of consequence.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

Ditto here. The whole young earth creationist view is rather bizarre to me to be honest. It takes the bib ikr compliantly out of its historical context and shoves it into a post enlightenment view of history and science. It also ignores the clear (and almost certainly purposeful) parallels between the it and Babylonian works it was written in response to. All in all it just doesn’t make sense literarily, scripturally, philosophically, or historically. And can sort of be a barrier to the gospel in my humble opinion.

[@Abrakadabro666]

​@@byzantineroman2407how very Christian of you to judge others. 🤣 😅

[@Thromash]

Well we are meant to be releasing Mammoths back into the wilds at Pleistocene Park in 2027 so we're taking steps. Though those will be grown within their closest living relative & well bringing back a T-Rex is just a touch different to bringing back the Mammoths lol

[@olbluetundra881]

Great content as always. I wonder why no one has cloned the Tasmanian tiger yet. They have multiple specimens. Both male and female from less than a hundred years ago. If they can't bring them back how I have a hard time believing they could bring back 60+ millions years ago. The jp series was still great though.

[@direwolf7491]

From what I read about this the issue is the preservation since the half life of DNA is 521 yrs. But this is the closest we have ever got to dino DNa, may be we could extract a few stands and figure out a way to fill up the gaps in the future. I'd like to be hopeful. However, I doubt large Dinosaurs would survive in our world with low oxygen levels.

[@mrsebrub]

Life will find the way...I wonder what would happen if we took her T Rex tissue and allowed AI to see what it could do with it? To get Religion away from this find. We have plenty of experience as to how Religious Zealots can Fuck things up! It would be kinda Cool 😎 to have a real Dino Zoo in real life. 😮

[@andresdeleon5160]

That is incredible and interesting.

[@Phalanx443]

If you think, for one second, that soft tissue of any kind, from any creature, can possibly survive for 65 million years, I have just the bridge you need to buy in Brookline, NY.

[@ron.v]

There must be as many views on the relationship between science and the Bible as there are people who debate it. I'm with you. Why does there have to be a controversy? In science, clinicians look for ways two apparent opposites can exists as often as they look at why they can't. Why not look at science and the Bible the same way? I'm convinced there's too much influence for disparity and not enough for similarity. Jesus said we should be "one", in other words Christians should not argue among themselves. That would be a good place to start.

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

Clone it, clone it, clone it, clone it, clone it. Yes I saw Jurassic Park, no I don't care if it gets out, science is doing all kinds of stupid things they shouldn't be, at least let me see a real life T-Rex before AI takes over everything.

[@jeffreyseamons5514]

My philosophy of reconciling my religious beliefs and my love of science is to learn as much as I can about both, but not worry about trying to fit them together. I believe that if I live a good life and make it to heaven God will explain everything.

[@tabithamashburn8786]

Yes! Best comment here

[@coryholbrook4643]

It’s only controversial if the physical evidence in your face doesn’t match the paradigm you’ve built up to explain what you can see through processes you’ve never seen.

[@Saltydoginthedesert]

Bring on the real-life Walking with Dinosaurs! 😄 Klayton, I've been watching your videos for the past 6 years and I have to say they're just as great and informative from so many different angles of Jurassic Park/paleontology as they were 6 years ago. As a Christian and a biologist, I agree, religion and biology/paleontology can both be accepted without perversion of one or the other. On a random note, what game is the scene from at the 10:09 mark where the T-Rex snatches the dude from a Jeep? As always, keep up the interesting videos! And don't forget, let's go Brandon! FJB! *Hodge Twins voice* "YEAHHH!"

[@exypnosaurus5079]

It was The Lost World Jurassic Park Arcade from 1997. It was one of the first games in Sega's new arcade system for the time.

[@9usuck0]

Yeah, that funny event where soft tissue was found when someone dropped a bone and instead of trying to understand if their timeline was wrong or their thoughts on how fossilization works. They rushed some weird iron theory out, which they didn't test.

[@rhaenyratargaryen1stofhern55]

This is fuel for young earth creationists still use this as fodder. They don’t understand that it’s not literally soft. It’s still fossilized, meaning inorganic.

[@dwightk.schruteiii8454]

5:15 idk maybe because these bones aren’t MILLIONS of years old.

[@Blackdrama20]

Wouldn't a cloned dinosaur in our world .. just suffocate and die in minutes or hours, because our atmosphere is so completely different to that time period the animal evolved in?

[@borisbauwens7133]

Probably not, atmospheric composition from the Mesozoic is pretty similar to the present.

[@TheBrendon67]

I always heard you can’t clone old dead cells as they are no longer viable?

[@jonibarger3147]

Awesome to hear these scientists commitment to Christ!! We will see science was created by God. More will be revealed.

[@TheNoodlyAppendage]

TLDR - No, its not genetic material, its like cartilage or something.

[@RaithGyaron]

My favorite T. rex discovery is actually that it had lips only because whenever I see it with them, it just feels right.

[@Mosaintsfan]

Still waiting on my full Dino Crisis Play-through 😢

[@maverick4668]

we'll be looking at the next john hammond soon🤣

[@garrettriddle4139]

Wait a minute, is this really true!?... Can Dino DNA really be replicated?

[@borisbauwens7133]

There are three requirements for replicating dino DNA. Having dino DNA in the first place. Having it in fragments that are long enough, so you can puzzle them together from the overlaps. The DNA being not too degraded (because even a strand that is long enough, cannot be sequenced if too many bases are chemically altered, for example by deamination, or bases are simply missing). It's looking bad for all three with current data. If we have it at all, it's too short and degraded to meaningfully analyze.

[@dsmith6484]

Before coming to faith, I remember reading about this discovery and that Dr. Schweitzer's being a Christian yet also being a paleontologist, and this in my mind began breaking down the barrier that all religious folks willfully disregarded scientific facts. As a Christian now for over 5 years, I still love science and dinosaurs, and am incredibly encouraged to hear of other believers that are passionate about about both faith and these ancient scientific discoveries.

[@jamsbasketball9676]

Great video Klayton! Best Jurassic content producer on KZbin.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

This is an off topic suggestion, but it’s one I’d like to see you talk about in a future video as well as other obscure dinosaurs in this franchise. I’ve recently picked up earlier this month the Mattel 30th anniversary set that came with the Explorer vehicle which was a throw back to the cancelled Kenner toy from Series 2 (which has been a long desired vehicle for me since I love the color scheme on this far more than the movie version), but it also came with a figure of the Scotosaurus which was also based on a cancelled figure from Series 2 which the mold was later reused for a figure pack during TLW. Apparently this dinosaur isn’t talked about much and I don’t see too many videos discussing about it, so, perhaps you could look into this obscure dinosaur that does have some JP history which could lead to other future videos of other obscure JP dinosaurs also getting some attention.

[@jahmasih4193]

Holding on to that millions of years with all they got lol.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Always back for Sexy and ANYTHING related to one of the Best Dinos ever spawned on this earth!❤

[@shinobi1kenobi75]

There have been lots of dino soft tissue found. It is, however, suppressed because it challenges the timeline and dino "FACTS" that the higher up eggheads made their bones on, and they will never admit to being wrong. The same thing with string theory. Everyone knows it doesn't work but it is supposed that it will eventually be right.

[@brianlevine871]

I remember hearing about that discovery back then and was curious if they actually could revive a T. rex in some way. Of course not too long after that, I learned that wasn't possible given how long DNA lasts, among other things. I'd love to see a living non-avian dinosaur, but I doubt that'll ever happen.

[@brianp6859]

Unless it's possible dinosaurs or atleast some dinosaurs are younger than 65 million years old. You ever heard of catastrophism and how it affects our planet? The 65 million year figure is based on sediment layers, what if a giant asteroid hit the ocean, what kind of a tsunami would that create? Could you imagine a 1, 2,3 or even 4 thousand foot high wall of water traveling at Mach speeds? We think about how that would kill all the living things but often fail to contemplate what that would do to the land. Study the sediment layers in the grandcanyon, there's alot of evidence the sediment there was deposited very rapidly instead of millions of years. Dinosaurs may not be as old as we think and the possibility of DNA extraction may still be on the table (atleast partial extraction that with enough samples we might get close to completing)

[@brendanreich1782]

I think, that someone out there with the knowledge to make a dinosaur. Might get too curious. They could get too curious of if it’s really possible and if they can do it, and if they do. That animal needs to be able to live it’s life fully. No small cage. Just giving it the chance to live it’s life for however long it can. And not subjecting it to tests or cruel treatment.

[@arkhamraptor7242]

I think I found my favorite video from you please keep these going I want to know more!

[@aidan22n]

What happened to your Signature song?

[@Minnesota_Fatts]

Life, uh, _finds_ a way.

[@barleyhopps]

The Earth isn't millions of years old, scientists dont know how to tell time.

[@JurassicBoyz006]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂OK

[@patrickwilliams2530]

There is : "Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur Caudipteryx" in 2021 by Alida M Bailleul from a well preserved dinosaur in china. Alida Bailleul even made a seminar which was given at Paris in prestigious university of La Sorbonne called : calcified cartilage : a new archive of choice for ancien dna ? It seems that with very particular preservation conditions it might be possible. However it would only give us partial dna samples which would certainly be not enough to clone a dino. But apparently yes under certain circumstances it might be possible to find ancient preserved dna despite the half life rules. However until we find more examples of this case paleonthologists don't go out shouting i found dino dna because it is still an hypothesis. This finding became so incredible that the scientific community asked for more proofs until it perhaps becomes accepted one day. So until we find more of these exceptionnal (at least 2 or 3 cases) preserved cells in fossils we can forget about it. And cloning a dinosaur would not be good for our planet and for the dino himself.