In this one-time class, students will learn the strategies scientists have used, are using, and may one day use in the future to try to bring long-extinct dinosaurs back to life. We will discuss the practicality of acquiring dinosaur DNA via insects preserved in amber (as depicted in the original film and book) or from fossilized dinosaur bone. In the process, we will consider challenges due to the breakdown of DNA over the millions of years since the end of the Cretaceous. Also, we will...