Re-Creating the Cretaceous
A Tale of Survival
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HERE IS THE STORY HOLLYWOOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ!
“Most recently there is one further piece of news, gentlemen, I’d like to share with you something which few if any of our directors are yet aware. Because
the news has yet to be made public, I would expect that you keep this strictly confidential for the time being, understood? New discoveries in the Permian
Basin in present day Texas have yielded near perfect nests of eggs of the well known Dimetrodon grandis, the Permian Era dinosaur with a large sail-like
fin on its back. We estimate these eggs to be just short of four hundred million years old.’
“BioGen, gentlemen, presently has but one major problem, but it’s not the type of problem you might imagine. We currently suffer not from a dearth of
viable dinosaur DNA but, instead, from an overabundance of it. Stored in private sections of our cryo labs both here on Isla Tranquila and Isla Verde, we
have enough different species that we could easily populate all three of our islands without having to repeat a single species on any of them. Among the
treasures we have on ice are four different species of carnivores who dwarf the T Rex in size and ferocity, a Tyrannotitan chubutensis, the Chinese cousin
of the T. Rex, a Trabosaurus bataar, and two members of the Abelisaur family, a Carnotaurus and a Majungasaurus. The problem then becomes one of not if we
expand, but when will we expand? An ancillary problem which we would also have to consider with any expansion is do we continue our research, hoping we can
still continue to financially support both the research and wildlife we’ve created here or…”
“Or,” Schwarzman interrupted, “do you turn one or more of the islands into a dinosaur petting zoo for wealthy patrons and their kids? Just imagine taking
home a photo of you hugging a stegosaurus, saddling up and letting the kids ride a triceratops or gallimimus, hand feeding a pliosaur swimming only a metre
in front of you, or watching a pair of trained velicoraptors jump through hoops of fire.”
“Think about it,” Yu continued in a sarcastic voice, “it just could happen. Both Heinz and the board are vehemently opposed to any attempt to increase
human exposure to the dinosaurs, much less any attempts to domesticate them. Once that happens, they immediately lose their mystique, magnificence and
dignity and become caricatures of themselves. A bit like Elvis.”
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HERE IS THE STORY HOLLYWOOD
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Throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, the United States and other nations conducted numerous scientific experiments intent upon recovering and then replicating
the DNA genomes of animals whose lives had been extinct for a period of over tens of thousands up to several millions of years. With no guidelines to
follow and, even worse, no external monitoring, many formerly extinct life forms were eventually cloned and successfully re-created, but with deadly and
destructive results. Most of the nations involved in such devastating experiments, including the United States, promptly responded by enacting highly
controversial laws prohibiting both the research into replicating the DNA and the revival of such extinct creatures. While some nations reacted by passing
bans on such research for twenty-five to fifty years, the United States enacted a ban of only twenty years, due to expire on January 1st, 2015. Other
nations, including many third world countries, openly resisted the pressure put upon them by the larger nations and opted out of enacting any type of
restrictions.
Sensing a shift in popular opinion during the two years preceding the expiration of the ban, the United States Congress began to conduct numerous hearings
on the matter, including collecting the testimony of nearly one hundred fifty of the nation’s most prominent geneticists and scholars. Among the group
invited to testify before Congress was Nicholas P. Heinz III, a thirty-two year old paleogeneticist and chairman of the highly esteemed research firm,
“BioGen,” BioGenetics International Technologies, LLC, in Cupertino, California. One of the last witnesses called to testify, Heinz had hoped his
impassioned testimony and detailed documentation of the myriad benefits derived from DNA genome research would help to continue the momentum gained from
earlier witnesses and would sway the Congress into letting the ban expire without being renewed. From Kurt M. V. Rich, the author of the critically
acclaimed historical novel 'Chasing the Golden Hoard: The Story of the Lydian Hoard,' 'Re-Creating the Cretaceous' invites you to investigate the story of
scientific wonders intermingled with greed, arrogance, subterfuge, and a quest for power far beyond the imagination of Hollywood.
About the Author
The author is a former teacher of Ancient & Mediæval European History in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. public and private school systems. He has had a lifelong interest in the civilisations of the Ancient Near East, the Classical World, Mediæval, Renaissance & Reformation Europe. The author continues to have a deep interest in art, architecture, archaeology, literature, theology, geology, and prehistory. He is also the author of photographic studies of Etruscan Tomb Art and the Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson near Nashville, Tennessee. His exciting and detail-packed first novel, Chasing the Golden Hoard: The Story of the Lydian Hoard, A Tale of Theft, Repatriation, Greed & Deceit, was conceived while reading a popular history of archaeological thefts. Ideas behind the inspiration for the story of Re-Creating the Cretaceous, A Tale of Survival were accumulated over a period of approximately six weeks of reading and research. The author currently resides in Houston, Texas and may be contacted at
kurtmvrich@gmail.com.