A Canadian palaeontologist believes that he can manipulate chicken embryos in order to create a dinosaur.
Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at McGill University in Montreal, said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds.
Mr Larsson believes that by flipping certain genetic levers during a chicken embryo’s development, he can reproduce the dinosaur anatomy, he told AFP in an interview.
Though still in its infancy, the research could eventually lead to hatching live prehistoric animals, but Mr Larsson said he has no immediate plans to create dinosaurs, for ethical and practical reasons – a dinosaur hatchery is “too large an enterprise.”
That would be sooooo coool to have dinosaurs running around. It would keep the kids off the streets at night!!!
More details here:-
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/05/how_to_build_a_dinosaur.php
now that would be a cool pet,hmmm what to feed it
Dibs on the breast.
LOL Richard, was gonna say, I gotta get a bigger BBQ.
this isnt fair
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get the hell away from that crazy Hans Larsson.
I used to have money but after 6 months of a 10 Roosters per day habit I am now broke