Patricia Grisafi
The way this year is going, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone decided to clone a dinosaur. After all, there were only more movies than you can shake a stick at warning us NOT TO DO THAT. And then there were the fires. The pandemic. The president telling a white supremacist group to “stand by.”
2020 has been so chaotic, maybe a dinosaur wouldn’t be unbelievable. Maybe he would even be nice!
But don’t worry, folks. There is no dinosaur. However, based on a video on Twitter, people temporarily wondered if Jurassic Park had come true.
On Sept. 26, a tweet by a verified account, @odiomistweets, posted the video and claimed that the dinosaur on film was the first cloned by scientists in China.
https://twitter.com/odiomistweets/status/1309904565706338305
In the video, a man in a lab coat holds what looks like a baby parasaurolophus (when you have a toddler, you learn all of the dinosaur names). The dinosaur lets out a tiny roar. It’s pretty cute.
Other accounts furthered the dinosaur craze, causing some people to worry.
Why would they clone a dinosaur! Why would they want to bring them back????
— Barbs✨ (@B_REZ_) September 28, 2020
bro they found a dinosaur in China,
bro there is literally a living, breathing and walking dinosaur in China— — (@ukh0na) September 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/pheeeeleeeeeen/status/1310710914593755138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1310710914593755138%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailydot.com%2Funclick%2Fbaby-dinosaur-clone-video%2F
But, relax. 2020 hasn’t thrown us that curveball just yet. According to Latestly, the dinosaur is actually an animatronic puppet from China’s Jurassic World exhibition. So just continue worrying about…everything else.
