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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[blueparrotsayswhat]

More evidence that birds are coolest little creatures on the planet

[FriendlyNigger]

my brother eats dinosaur shaped nuggets

it all makes sense now.

[Alejandro Ortiz]

Imagine KFC serving Fried Chickenosaurus with mash potato and fries.

[123GentleTouch321]

so you line up pictures of bones that look similar and then say it evolved.. :/

i thought science always provides evidence, not assumption through fantasy.

[Martin Reese]

Chickenosaurus lmao



[TheLife1989]

Thanks :)

[zytigon]

Amazing videos about, " Dinosaur to bird evolution " and " Feather evolution " on djarm67 channel.

[catha86]

thats too bad.

[michael weedmark]

i heard it in a documentary he was in, and he was talking about it. its cause they stick a giant needle into their brains, and have to destroy the egg, which kills it.

[catha86]

does they say so in the video?

[michael weedmark]

because it dies in embrotic stae