Social Media Isn't Happy That We Still Don't Have Living Dinosaurs

Five years ago to the day, scientists promised they'd be able to recreate dinosaurs by this very [...]

By Adam Barnhardt - June 16, 2020 09:59 pm EDT

Five years ago to the day, scientists promised they'd be able to recreate dinosaurs by this very day. As it turns out — unless something major happens in the next few hours — the scientists were wrong. As you might imagine, the internet is pretty peeved there isn't a real-life Jurassic Park yet just quite yet.

"Actually, the wings and hands are not as difficult," Dr. Jack Horner said five years ago today as he held a panel on a "Chickensaurus" he wanted to create. "The tail is the biggest project. But on the other hand, we have been able to do some things recently that have given us hope that it won't take too long."

"Birds are living dinosaurs," he explained. "Steven and I had a lot of arguments about whether the velociraptors should have colors and be colorful," Horner explained. "He won all of those arguments. He said a technicolor feather dinosaur is not going to scare anyone. So, they're grey and featherless."

Keep scrolling to see what Twitter is saying.

Down to the Second

dinosaur will be real

in 52 minutes https://t.co/J4lreuDVLk
— Bud (@ShimaBud_) June 16, 2020

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Real Life Jurassic Park

if they opened a Jurassic Park I would go, for three reasons

1. I am an idiot
2. Dinosaurs are cool
3. There is arguable no cooler way to die than by dinosaurs
— 🅱️enzie (voted 🅱️est Simp for Jesus) (@whimsykenzie) June 16, 2020

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I Need the Manager. Now.

Welp. It's been 5 years. Where's my dinosaur?

I would like to speak to the manager of scientists please. https://t.co/YTpbIwSAog
— Qasim Rashid for Congress (@QasimRashid) June 16, 2020

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Threats

if there are dinosaurs before equality, I’m going to seek out equality by using dinosaurs.

and yes, that’s a threat. https://t.co/dU3Fv7TKgZ
— JD Dillard (@JGDillard) June 16, 2020

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