Fossil Hunters

Bet you thought Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" was fiction! In fact, you probably even told your kids: "Hey! This isn't real. It's only a movie."

Remember?

It was a tale of an entrepreneur who developed genetically produced dinosaurs. T-Rexs in fact.

Now, little dinosaurs are cute when they are young, but like in the Jurassic Park sequel, they can be a menace when fully grown.

Consider this: not even ONE dinosaur leg will fit into a transport helicopter. That's pretty big, folks! Why, just one of their feet squashing a two-bedroom ranch could plummet the real estate markets into an irreversible downward spin. Then, where would our economy be?

Sure. And didn't the real T-Rexs die out 65 million years ago? No sweat. We've got nothing to worry about.

Or maybe we do!

A fossil-hunting team led by paleontologist, John R. Horner, found a 70 million-year-old T-Rex in Montana in 2003.

I can hear you thinking: "But that's not a big deal, Chaeli. Finding fossilized dinosaur skeletons is quite a common occurance, old girl."

That may be so, but today's news mentioned that this dig turned up the very first SOFT TISSUE, BLOOD-VESSELED dinosaur with cells.

There are battery cells, convent cells, jail cells, cliques with inner circle cells, AND there are cells that contain DNA. You know what that means.

In a paper published today in the journal "Science", the T-Rex's Discovery Team said that they are already contemplating CLONING this dinosaur !

Now, I'm pretty sure cloning means producing a living replica of Mr. T-Rex. Is this déjà vu or what?

With this news in front of me, I'm thoroughly convinced that this is exactly the right moment for Spielberg to make another Jurassic sequel.

It will rake in BILLIONS if it hits the cinemas at the same time a successful dinosaur cloning hits the newspapers!

Fossil Hunters © 2005 Chaeli Sullivan