If archaeologists found dinosaur DNA or Fossils, would they be able to have a better idea of what dinosaurs really

Question: If archaeologists found dinosaur DNA or Fossils, would they be able to have a better idea of what dinosaurs really looked like?
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Asked by butcher00 to Chia-Yu, Helen, Matthew, Matt H, Rhod on 24 Jun 2013.
- Matt Carnie answered on 24 Jun 2013:
  
  I have no doubt that in years to come geneticists would be able to use dino-DNA to bring dinosaurs back to life. I’m not sure whether we have any dino-DNA good enough to do this at the moment.
  
  It probably wouldn’t be possible to tell what they looked like just from their DNA, we would have to bring them back to life. Is that a good idea? Have you SEEN Jurassic PArk!?

butcher00 commented on 25 Jun 2013:

Thank you!

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chemnet commented on 26 Jun 2013:

Hi,

Want to know what dinosaurs ate for dinner? There’s a lot of information hidden in fossils – find out in this article: http://www.rsc.org/images/TM0113-coprolites_tcm18-225531.pdf

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Question: If archaeologists found dinosaur DNA or Fossils, would they be able to have a better idea of what dinosaurs really looked like?