Bruce ignored him, save for a roll of his eyes, and shouldered past him, careful to keep his hands off anything that could contaminate the egg. After he carefully picked the egg up, he placed it onto a pillow in front of Lex. It looked no different from any ordinary ostrich egg, and Lex looked highly skeptical that there was any difference.
"I suppose you can't really tell the difference this way, can you?"
Bruce didn't wait for an answer; instead, he found what looked like several pieces of very clumpy beef jerky with bones in them.
"Let me see the records and autopsy reports. I can figure it out."
Lex didn't wait for an answer, instead turning to rifle through the nearest filing cabinet. "Life isn't a magical gift bestowed upon us by some all-knowing God," he muttered, mostly to himself, "it's a puzzle. Give me enough time and I'll crack the code, wait and see..."
"I already know why they didn't survive," Bruce said, but Lex hardly seemed to hear him at all. He headed over to the nearest wall, took off one glove, and then pressed his hand to a specific space. The piece of wall moved out and to the side, and Bruce extracted several nondescript manila folders, placing them gently back on the table before closing the wall again and slipping the glove back on.
"Combining them with the DNA of another animal hasn't been working. We've tried reptiles and birds of all sorts, but none have been able to produce viable offspring. It's not as if we can make an egg of the dinosaur to fertilize. I thought if we just found an animal close enough to the species of dinosaur, it could work. But, really, it's a miracle we managed to sequence the Genome at all."
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He set the beaker down, and then crossed his arms. "All right, show me the goods."
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"I suppose you can't really tell the difference this way, can you?"
Bruce didn't wait for an answer; instead, he found what looked like several pieces of very clumpy beef jerky with bones in them.
"Stillborns, all of them, so far."
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Lex didn't wait for an answer, instead turning to rifle through the nearest filing cabinet. "Life isn't a magical gift bestowed upon us by some all-knowing God," he muttered, mostly to himself, "it's a puzzle. Give me enough time and I'll crack the code, wait and see..."
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"Combining them with the DNA of another animal hasn't been working. We've tried reptiles and birds of all sorts, but none have been able to produce viable offspring. It's not as if we can make an egg of the dinosaur to fertilize. I thought if we just found an animal close enough to the species of dinosaur, it could work. But, really, it's a miracle we managed to sequence the Genome at all."
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