@DianaNites Granted, I'm totally ignorant about cloning stuff, but maybe they might be kind of coincidentally genetically similar to things like komodo dragons (not because of the name) or alligators, or something? Or does real world cloning require the exact same species?
I mean if nothing else some things like ligers exist, which have tons of issues (including being sterile 100% of the time, I think?), but are at least on some level indicative of some interspecies child bearing. I know there's been some gene modding of fetuses in recent years too, but likewise no idea what the upper bounds something like that can achieve are.
Either way, I'm sure even if there'd eventually be strides in bringing back dragons, it wouldn't be too easy. Something like having tons of dragon material might actively jump start more research in that field, even, though of course that kinda thing would still take years and years.