   Share This article  It started like any other morning, and
then we all learned that we would soon be riding cloned
dinosaurs to work. All it took was a single benevolent
billionaire to pay for the science stuff to get done, and boom —
dinosaurs are no longer extinct. Of course, it was a pipe dream
from the beginning, but these stories of cloning prehistoric
creatures come up from time to time, and most people (reporters
especially) don’t want to tell you how impossible it is.  It’s
been years since cloned animals first appeared, so why aren’t we
able to reach back to the Cretaceous yet? Well, this isn’t just
a question of improving our current cloning methods. We lack the
fundamental materials to clone anything from 65 million years
ago. Taking into account the influence of Hollywood, you could
be forgiven for thinking that dinosaur blood is flowing like
rivers in labs all over the world. The fact is, we don’t have
dino DNA.  CloningIn the late ’80s and early ’90s there were a
wave of scientists claiming s