Scientist leaves people outraged with her explanation for why Jurassic Park is impossible

A scientist has dashed the hopes of many after breaking down why a future where dinosaur’s roam the Earth isn’t likely going to be happening.

The first time you watched Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park film you likely felt a great deal of wonder for all the scientific possibilities - that someday in the future, a group of scientists would bring a bunch of dinosaur’s back from extinction.

However, Dr Beth Shapiro, of the American biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Bioscience, spoke about why this probably isn't going to happen.

Sadly, this is not meant to be, according to a scientist (Universal Pictures)

While the company is taking steps to de-extinct animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo, bringing back dinosaur’s is a step too far - at least in the manner shown in Jurassic Park.

In a reel from the company which was shared last month, she said: “Core to Colossal [Biosciences’] mission is this idea of de-extinction.

“When most people think of de-extinction, one very specific image comes to mind. But this is not what we’re doing.

“Dinosaurs went extinct more than 65 million years ago. The oldest DNA that we have recovered so far is somewhere between 1 and 2 million years old but most DNA degrades away by 10 or 20,000 years.”

Well, that sounds a little bit inconvenient, but I’m sure you are asking ‘why don’t these scientists just get the DNA from all the fossils we have of dinosaurs?’

Well, Dr. Shapiro was ready with an answer to go.

She added: “Fossils are rocks and rocks don’t have DNA. It is also not possible to recover DNA from mosquitoes preserved in amber. I’ve tried it, it doesn’t work."

Well, I guess Jurassic Park’s Ian Malcolm was wrong, the scientists did stop to think if they could and should - it just turns out they can’t.

And to really drive the nail into the coffin, Dr Shapiro finished with a cheeky apology, adding: “There is no DNA in mosquitoes in amber, there is no DNA in dinosaur fossils, dinosaur de-extinction is not going to happen. I am very sorry.”

People on Reddit were less forgiving, however.

“Negative Nancysaurus Rex,” one person joked, while another added: “’Life, uh, finds a way.’Recreating dinosaurs is back on the menu, boys!”

“Why she gotta harsh my mellow man??,” a third wrote.

“I don’t think she’s 'very sorry' at all….she’s a big party pooper,” commented another.

In a 2015 article on The Prospect, Dr Shapiro further explored the idea of de-extinction as presented in Jurassic Park.

In the film, dinosaurs are brought back using DNA from mosquito's blood (Universal Pictures)

In the film, the scientists used frog DNA in place of missing genomes - which eventually backfires when the dinosaurs start changing sex in response to a single-sex environment.

She writes that the intention is usually to 'find-and-replace those same bits' from a close relative.

Using a wooly mammoth as an example, she says we'd 'have to learn what all the differences between the elephant genome and the mammoth genome are', making all the changes necessary which might be 'too much to accomplish'.

However, recreating a missing gene integral to the species, like a wooly mammoth's ability to survive in cold temperatures, might be easier said than done, as she adds: "Genetically pure mammoths, or genetically pure versions of any extinct species, are likely not possible."

But if selected correctly, she says that certain characteristics could be resurrected - so I wouldn't get your hopes down yet.