Is it Leather? Writes on LinkedIn: A group of ambitious biotech startups is claiming they’ve cracked it:

Forget about normal, everyday cattle – they can now bio-engineer Tyrannosaurus rex leather from reconstructed dinosaur DNA.

Yes, you read that right. T-Rex Leather.

Apparently, it’s the next frontier in “luxury materials.” Because who doesn’t want a belt made from something that once terrorized the Cretaceous period?

This leather is:

• 66 million years in the making
• Tougher than vegan steak
• Ethically confusing, scientifically outrageous, and fashionably fossilized

Forget cowhide. That’s for amateurs. This is apex predator fashion…nothing “Fast Fashion” here…as its millions of years in the making. Who wouldn’t want this – we’re talking about a hide that can metaphorically survive extinction—and for fans of Jurassic Park, can certainly be a “disruptive innovation.”

But one burning question remains:

Why are people chasing 66-million-year-old leather when perfectly good leather already exists — and is significantly easier to obtain and quite less… extinct?

Well – because nothing says status symbol like material that predates agriculture, the Himalayas, and human civilization itself. Because if you can’t make a jacket from endangered beasts, why even innovate?

And, of course, because some activists yelled “disrupt the fashion industry,” and biotech heard “cloning dinosaurs is fair game” and much more exciting than mushrooms being turned into leather!

Sure, it’s “leather”—but seasoned by millions of years of geological trauma. Technically old. Spiritually unkillable. So, if you want luxury boots with the confidence of a carnivore…T-Rex leather might be right up your alley!

It’s unclear if this will ever hit mass production or remain a fossil-fueled fever dream.

But one thing’s certain: biotech startups are out here not just pushing boundaries – they’re digging them up, sequencing them, and pitching them to VCs in hopes of a huge payday.

Can’t we just use the beautiful, natural leather that we already have available to us? We have the hides – why are we always looking for other answers when the real thing is right in front of us!