>>26663093Yes, this divide has good points on both sides. I'd probably side with the "they can be revived BECAUSE they were Rock-type to begin with", as IRL we don't have any rock-based lifeforms, and in the Pokémon world they do, so the rules of ancient preservation would be different.
I also like that theory because it follows the logic that we can't revive dinosaurs from fossils; even Jurassic Park used the DNA inside the blood inside the stomach of a mosquito preserved in amber. In a world with rock-based lifeforms, it could be within the realm of reality to be able to revive a creature from the stoney remains since the stone has both the qualities of a rock, longevity, and the qualities of a living organism, DNA. I suspect the process the scientists do isn't so much reviving the fossils back to life as much as it is using the DNA in the rock/fossil as a basis for cloning the Pokémon.
