JACK HORNER IS BUILDING A DINOCHICKEN: U WANT ONE?

Thay have inactive dinosaur DNA from their ancestors.

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Thay have inactive dinosaur DNA from their ancestors.

JAck Horner is an amateur paleontologist

and is not a genetcisit.
He seems to miss the point that there has never been any evidence of any dinosaur DNA to even make a scientific proposal. ALL is mere conjecture from a bunch of "What ifs".

We have lots of evidence that chickens, when certain alleles are "turned off" will grow teeth via the embryos ontogenic development .
Any genetic reference is purely speculation at this point. I wish Horner would be more careful about his arm waving.

I give him credit for trying.

Even if all he gets is a modified chicken, if it has any morphological similarity to a dinosaur the media (and therefor the general public) will consider it a success. And we'll have learned something more about genetics in the process.

PETA may not like it, but if we let a herd of pseudo-dino-chickens loose in their house to bite 'em it'll be fun anyway.

That used to be true; I 'm not sure that it still is.

That used to be true; I 'm not sure that it still is.

Then youd be wrong. Theres no dino DNA out there. NOONE has found any.

The stories of some "near hits" are abut a substance called Osteocalcin which is not really close.

My disdain for Horner is based on his clownlike activities in recent years. If you are so taken by this news and didnt know that the concept of "back engineering" a birds DNA has been done numrous of times , then I dont know how to convince you.
Remain ignorant, I care not.

Ha, Ive seen a precis and this entire line is Horner hawking
his new book "How to Build A Dinosaur".

He is trying to establish personbal cred by invoking work by larsen
(who was the most recent to turn off chicken beak genes,
and MAry SChweitzer who found red blood cells in soft tissue of a T Rex.
His book is merely a survey of where paleo has gone in the last several years.

I doubt if Horner is equipped to "back engineer" a dinosaur.

JACK HORNER IS BUILDING A DINOCHICKEN:
U WANT ONE?

I had chickens, as a boy in Arizona,
but not Dinochickens. I don 't believe that
his intended creation will be very large;
not take up too much space.
Thay will have hands, instead of wings.
I dunno about their personalities.

I doubt if Horner is equipped to "back engineer" a dinosaur.

JACK HORNER IS BUILDING A DINOCHICKEN:
U WANT ONE?

I had chickens, as a boy in Arizona,
but not Dinochickens. I don 't believe that
his intended creation will be very large;
not take up too much space.
Thay will have hands, instead of wings.
I dunno about their personalities.

Perhaps asking those typws of questions earlier?

You sounded convinced that Horner was going to actually do it no?

I have some really nioce land for sale, at low tide its unsaturated

I doubt if Horner is equipped to "back engineer" a dinosaur.

All he really needs to be equipped is to have enough money to hire
someone to tweak the right eggs.

Maybe he'll get that from his book?

Anyway, I don't care if he recreates a real dino,
or if all he gets is a bald chicken with a tail and fingers, that alone would be pretty cool :-)

All he really needs to be equipped is to have enough money to hire someone to tweak the right eggs. Maybe he'll get that from his book?

Anyway, I don't care if he recreates a real dino, or if all he gets is a bald chicken with a tail and fingers, that alone would be pretty cool :-)

CLEARLY. I don 't think he's a geneticist.