Dinosaur to bird evolution 2of5

Today's scientists are recreating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. Sounds like science fiction? Not any longer.

Through rapid advances in genetics, scientists are discovering the genetic traits of dinosaurs in the DNA of birds. They are showing that it is possible to bring back teeth, long tails and hands in place of wings. In Dinosaurs: Return to Life, learn why the dream of recreating the dinosaur genome is coming closer to reality.

Ever since Mary Higby Schweitzer peeked inside the fractured thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the introverted scientist's life hasn't been the same. Neither has the field of paleontology.


In 2004, Schweitzer gazed through a microscope in her laboratory at North Carolina State University and saw lifelike tissue that had no business inhabiting a fossilized dinosaur skeleton: fibrous matrix, stretchy like a wet scab on human skin; what appeared to be supple bone cells, their three-dimensional shapes intact; and translucent blood vessels that looked as if they could have come straight from an ostrich at the zoo.

An alternate hypothesis has been suggested that the "soft" tissues are in actual fact bacterial biofilms. Kaye TG, Gaugler G, Sawlowicz Z (2008) Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms.

Whilst certain organisations continue to parrot the phrase "no transitional fossils have ever been found" the list of species which possess transitional features continues to grow.

Epidexipteryx hui, Protoavis, Protarchaeopteryx, Archeopteryx, Avimimus, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Rahonavis, Shuvuuia, Sinornithosaurus, Beipiasaurus, Microraptor, Nomingia, Epidendrosaurus, Cryptovolans, Scansoriopteryx, Yixianosaurus, Dilong, Pedopenna, Jinfengopteryx, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornis, Ambiortus, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis

Every home should have the Discovery Channel

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[1990PatMorrison]

@ 5:00 Birds definitely appeared in the Jurassic and may have appeared in the Triassic but the Raptors first appeared in the Cretaceous, how could birds have evolved from them? 

[djarm67]

@1990PatMorrison Maniraptorans first appeared in the Jurassic. Eshanosaurus is the earliest so far @ 196 MYO

[CODQuickScopePro]

if they ever revive dinos, they should use them for WAR!

[Frab2001]

Oh, the animations and drawings of what scientist "supposed" happen are considered evidence of macroevolution. Did species adapt and change within a species? Yes. Did a species evolve into an animal outside its gene pool? There is no evidence of that in the fossil record. It shows only adaptation within a species...so, this video is what they "think" could have happend...period. Nice cartoon though!

[somethingdiffereable]

Oh my goodness. They were lying to me about Adam & Eve in the enchanted forest with the talking snake! Do you think they might have been lying to me about the jesus story too?

[gorilla199uncensored]

@jossalv1

" Evolution in reverse I suppose. "

Let me guess, you think your imaginary invisable friend created birds 200 million years latter?  LOL

[shadowknigth95]

@jossalv1 Actually, Pterodactyls are not dinosaurs.

[pokehead46]

who the hell thought this was cute!?

[pussylumpessru]

@djarm67

Could you answer something? Birds have a fixed femur so their lungs wouldn't collapse when the walk. Their lung structure is different because higher oxygen intake is needed for flight. So, why do dinosaurs have movable femurs, if birds need a fixed one? Dinosaur lungs would've collapse as they walked, yet they didn't.

[Caradepato2]

@jossalv1 Well, yes. Point being?

[jossalv1]

Great now we can create living Pterodactyls. Wait, that was in Jurassic park,

in the movies. It appears to me that modern birds are inferior to any flying

dinosaurs, yet birds are here and dinosaurs are gone. Evolution in reverse I suppose.

[jossalv1]

@Caradepato2 I have seen dino tanks in, Avatar, and one of the Star Wars movies, at least the alien version of what look like dino tanks.

[darkfur35]

@tuseroni The fact is; your comment is unscientific and silly.