Ever had chicken? Now you know what they tasted like.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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God I want dinosaur soup so bad.
You would have those huge chunks of bone for your broth, and huge slabs of meat for however you want to prepare it. That’s so much freedom for how and what you want to cook.
Plus, one dinosaur egg could make like a dozen omelettes. There could be dino egg teppanyaki where one person breaks an egg and serves a dozen people.
You could in theory eat whale meat, which would have even bigger bones. I do not recommend that, but certainly more possible then dinosaurs.
Ostrich eggs are a very real option.
We don't even know what they really look like.
Between skeletal structure, evolution and biology we have a damn good idea. While we may not know exactly what skin color adapted to a given period 70 million years ago in a certain region or how much feathers some might have had I guess I understood we had a compelling body of ideas drawn from research at this point for many species. What are the parts you're referring to that are so unknown?
Skin colour, patterns and feathers and scales heavily affect the appearance of the species. Also soft tissue, muscle and fat distribution. These things are hard to figure out from fossils. A lot of research is based on assumptions, we can guess what they most likely look like, but we don’t know for certain.
My guess is that the taste of non-avian dinos would vary quite a bit:
- large herbivores would probably taste similar to beef, venison and cheval, except really gamey. Because it's what people who ate ostrich say about its meat, it isn't chicken-like at all.
- smaller ones could perhaps taste like birds? Specially if omnivorous.
Ostrich tastes basically like super lean beef. Ostriches are absolutely not herbivores though, they eat bugs and small rodents too.
According to Isaac Asimov, they taste delicious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father
Nah, we might clone them someday.
You need genetic material for that and unfortunatly that does not preserve even close to well enough to clone a non avian dinosaur.
"Ever" is a long time.
If we managed to make a computer model where you can input a DNA sequence and the model can produce the corrosponding organism, you could almost brute force it (run DNA sequences until your model comes up with a dinosaur that matches our fossils).
A mammoth was once found frozen in ice. Preserved. It was thawed, and iirc some important guy had some of the meat cooked for him to sample.
Not a dino, but extinct.
One of the contributing factors of their extinction was being hunted my humans, so someone already knew what they tasted like way before that.