Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

[dadevvtsvre]

From Yahoo!:

After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.ADVERTISEMENT

Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at Montreal's McGill University, said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds.

Larsson believes 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 Larsson said there are no plans for that now, for ethical and practical reasons -- a dinosaur hatchery is "too large an enterprise."

So apparently this guy wants to somehow alter the genes of chickens and artificially reproduce a dinosaur.

It's a crazy idea and I'm no geneticist so I don't know if it's even plausible but I hope I'm not the only one who would love to see a live chickenosaurus!

 

[Ellie]

Just don't open an amusement park

 

[psiclone]

lol @ jurrasic park reference

 

[Love]

Oh yays. We are going to see a little dinosaur, then little dinosaurs grow, then it becomes dinosaurs age again and all the technology restarts!

Awesome. :P

 

[dylanf3]

afterwards this is us:

 

[Zelfouz]

This is how the cockatrice will be born.

 

[Incognitus]

I can't be the only one who is imagining a chicken giving birth to a T-rex, can I?

 

[Love]

I can't be the only one who is imagining a chicken giving birth to a T-rex, can I?

You're not. O.O

 

[Ellie]

You're all disturbing. I mean come on. It would obviously be a Brachiosaurus coming out of the chic's vag

 

[Incognitus]

You're all disturbing. I mean come on. It would obviously be a Brachiosaurus coming out of the chic's vag

Don't be silly. Both are egg-laying creatures; There is obviously a flaw in your logic here. ;P

 

[Ellie]

M-my whole world has been turned upside down

What is this egg of which you speak

And what have I been... erm...

 

[mawk]

all I can find myself thinking is "how would dinosaurs taste"

 

[Ellie]

all I can find myself thinking is "how would dinosaurs taste"

Like chicken

Everything tastes like chicken

 

[mawk]

beef does not taste like chicken

 

[Ellie]

Yes it does

Cows are just bunches of chickens selotaped together inside a leather suit

 

[mawk]

those chickens are damn good actors

 

[Guest]

;D

 

[$t3v0]

About time that we became the pray. Maybe we'll be shoved in cages and fed until our legs break and realise a few things.

I'm all for it! :thumb:

 

[Ellie]

how long before dinophilia

 

[dylanf3]

You're all disturbing. I mean come on. It would obviously be a Brachiosaurus coming out of the chic's vag

Well, actually, compared to the size it would be this

or this: