JURASSIC PARK ?!?

[Jerry Learn]

In article <53k78e$388_001 at gn1.noord.bART.nl>, kammenga at noord.bart.nl (Bas
Kammenga) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know why they try to rebuild dinosaurs from millennia ago,
>
>and not try it first with lately died species like the DODO??
>
<<more sensible stuff snipped>>

Okay, Bas, I'll take the bait.  The truth is that Jurassic Park was a
fictional movie, based on a work of fiction by a novelist, Michael
Crichton.  Furthermore, at least in the US, dinosaurs have much broader
mass appeal, than dodos or mammoths.  Tough to figure that one out, eh?

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Jerry Learn

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