jurassic
Original: jurassic on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Scientist (a woman with orange/red hair, gesturing): "We took blood from ancient mosquitos caught in amber."
Panel 2:
Scientist: "We then sequenced it, filled in the gaps with modern reptile DNA, and created these Tyrannosaurus eggs."
(An incubator with two eggs is shown.)
Panel 3:
Gray-haired man (with glasses): "DNA degrades too quickly for that to be possible. There's no way you recovered a 65 million year old genome."
Panel 4:
Scientist: "Then what the hell do I sequence?"
Gray-haired man: "Probably contamination from the animals who died on the work."
Panel 5:
Gray-haired man (stunned, eyes wide): "But... but that means--"
Sound effect from the egg: "Krak-krak!"
Panel 6:
A small green creature/hatchling hisses from the egg: "CAW!"
Votey:
A speech bubble points to the green hatchling: "The glasses are an epigenetic effect."
Scientist (a woman with orange/red hair, gesturing): "We took blood from ancient mosquitos caught in amber."
Panel 2:
Scientist: "We then sequenced it, filled in the gaps with modern reptile DNA, and created these Tyrannosaurus eggs."
(An incubator with two eggs is shown.)
Panel 3:
Gray-haired man (with glasses): "DNA degrades too quickly for that to be possible. There's no way you recovered a 65 million year old genome."
Panel 4:
Scientist: "Then what the hell do I sequence?"
Gray-haired man: "Probably contamination from the animals who died on the work."
Panel 5:
Gray-haired man (stunned, eyes wide): "But... but that means--"
Sound effect from the egg: "Krak-krak!"
Panel 6:
A small green creature/hatchling hisses from the egg: "CAW!"
Votey:
A speech bubble points to the green hatchling: "The glasses are an epigenetic effect."
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A red-haired scientist explains she took blood from ancient mosquitos caught in amber, sequenced it, filled gaps with modern reptile DNA, and created Tyrannosaurus eggs shown in an incubator. A gray-haired man with glasses objects that DNA degrades too quickly to recover a 65-million-year-old genome. The scientist asks what she sequenced then; he says it was probably contamination from animals who died on the work. He suddenly looks horrified, realizing the implication, as an egg cracks ("Krak-krak!"). In the final panel a green hatchling emerges and cries "CAW!" Votey: a close-up of the green hatchling, which now wears glasses, with a caption: "The glasses are an epigenetic effect" — implying the creature was reborn from the bespectacled man's own DNA contamination, glasses and all.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.