A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.