Баранова, Starlight 8. Учебник. Module 4f

I think it is possible, but I think it would take a long time.

1 H … dinosaurs … roaming the Earth over 65 million years ago … dinosaur DNA doesn’t last that long … It is generally accepted … survive 100, 000 years at the most.
2 C … running tests on the bone … suddenly found organic material … After it was placed under a microscope … dinosaur blood vessels … 68 million years old … It was an astonishing find …
3 A Jack believes … complete genetic map … might take decades … For this reason … he … looking at other ways …
4 G … an embryo … It seemed that the embryo …
5 В … enlarge its tail by three more bones … This may not seem so impressive …
6 D … see … dinosaur within the next hundred years … That seems a long time to wait … some Japanese scientists … The Tokyo researchers …
7 F He imagines himself teaching … the most satisfying lecture …

1 become
2 bring
3 make
4 roam
5 preserved
6 break
7 conduct
8 hatch
9 advanced
10 distant

1 roam
2 magnified
3 survive
4 ancestors

1 himself
2 themselves
3 herself
4 yourself
5 himself
6 ourselves

1 were astonished by (passive)
2 had a great time (lexical)
3 is reported to have (personal passive construction)
4 doesn’t mind spending (-ing form)
5 is said to be (personal passive construction)

What I found most interesting is that they have found living dinosaur DNA. I am also fascinated by the fact that birds are the distant relatives of dinosaurs and that they can be used to possibly bring dinosaurs back to life in one way or another.

I don’t think it is such a good idea to interfere with nature and natural events in time. I think dinosaurs should remain extinct. I don’t think it would be safe for us or for these species to exist out of their time. However, I think that other species that became extinct in an unnatural way due to man’s activities, such as hunting or destroying their habitats, should be brought back because they may still play an important role in the ecosystem.

The age of the dinosaurs lasted about 200 million years during the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago). Dinosaur fossils show they lived during the three periods of that era; the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The first dinosaurs appeared during the Triassic Period about 230 million years ago. They were small and lightweight. During the Jurassic Period (208-144 million years ago) much bigger dinosaurs appeared. The climate was hot and humid with plenty of rain which produced rich vegetation everywhere. It was during this time Brachiosaurus lived and bird-like dinosaurs appeared. The Cretaceous Period (114-65 million years ago) was hot and humid with plenty of swamps; perfect for dinosaurs. There were now a huge variety of dinosaurs roaming the land and flying in the air. This was the time of the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Triceratops.
At the end of the third period (65 million years ago) all the dinosaurs suddenly became extinct. A large meteor may have hit the Earth or climate cooling may have been to blame.