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So there's some creature long extinct, but there are fossils of it. Time to use some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to [[Back from the Dead|revive the creature and reintroduce back in the present]].
Note that in Real Life, actual fossils don't have any genetic information - the tissue was replaced by stone long ago. Thus, in most cases this is nowhere near hard or even semi-rigid science fiction.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' foe Stegron invented a ray that allowed him to transform fossil dinosaurs in museums into living dinosaurs that he used to rampage through New York.
== [[Film]]
* The premise of ''[[Jurassic Park]]''.
* In the movie ''Mammoth'', an alien crash lands in a small town that has a mammoth in their museum. The alien gets inside of the mammoth, and brings it to life and goes on a soul-sucking rampage.
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** The only exception is Genesect, which was revived by Team Plasma, and is part Steel, instead of part Rock, due to being given a better, stronger body.
* The Las Plagas of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' are revealed to be prehistoric, and were recovered from fossils in an excavation underneath the castle. God knows how old they really were.
* ''[[Parasite Eve]]'': Some sort of semi-sentient organic goo-thing, resulting from an accidental case of an [[
* ''[[Spectrobes]]'' has the titular creatures being revived in this fashion. However, their "fossils" are less traditional fossils and more stone statues in their shapes, making them more of a kind of [[Sealed Good in a Can]].
* ''[[Fossil Fighters]]'' does this more directly, with dinosaurs being revived from fossils. However, the technology that does so is a little... [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology|funky]], and gives the critters it revives [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|elemental powers]].
* The newest{{when}} expansion pack of ''[[Zoo Tycoon]] 2'' lets the player find fossils and clone a baby dino/extinct animal from it. If the player gets a 100% on the minigame required to clone the critter, the baby becomes a Super Clone, which is bigger, lives longer, and won't get sick.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', there is a boss fight against a giant [[Dem Bones|skeleton]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], which is reanimated by Zant and his dark sword.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', thanks to the archaeology profession released in the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, allows players to find raptor fossils and rebuild them into a moving mount and pet.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* There is a lot of talk about doing this for some extinct animals such as Mammoths, but only a few extinct species have ever actually been brought back.
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