Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

http://www.ted.com Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".

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[Typho0n86]

Religious people sitting watching this with their fingers in their ears going la la la la la la la

[novacandy99]

CGP secret link

[johntheant]

Tooth growing chicken glowing chicken hand chicken chickenosaurs.... POKEMON: cock fighting

[Typho0n86]

@sonikku956 Your beliefs are flawed

[sonikku956]

@Typho0n86 That's a common stereotype XD. I believe in a higher being, but I also know that evolution is real.

[mohamedgna]

@Samura1gamer your point being?

[Samura1gamer]

@mohamedgna i was the one to bring up religion.and now i challenge u to start a centuries-long religious war to see who's god is the strongest

[quentinxavier]

me wants fried chickenosaur mom, and gimme some mashed potatomatoes please! yummy!

[mohamedgna]

@rgzdev TED is not about religious belief, its about open mindedness which is safe to say is NOT an exclusive characteristic to atheists or religionists (is religionist a word?)

anyway the point is you almost always risk being wrong when you generalise, for example you say *really* and "waste" I tell you I've watched 300+ TED talks and I never miss one of the five prayers.

[rgzdev]

I didn't bring up the topic of religion and I'm not talking about religion itself but religious people.

Generally speaking people that are *really* into religion don't tend to "waste" time watching TED.