One of the great mysteries that surrounds the early times of the world are dinosaurs. The dinosaurs where these massive, powerful creatures that roamed the world hunting and leaving a lot of untold secrets in the ground.
So what if you could create a dinosaur from a current animal like a chicken or a dog? Well a paleontologist by the name of Jack Horner had a dream like this for his whole life, and he spent his life trying to find the DNA needed to recreate a real living dinosaur. Jack Horner, who had an amazing sense of humor, talked in this TED talk about how we can actually change a chicken into dinosaur. He was part of a handful of dinosaur digs that recovered a lot of soft tissue, and even red blood cells. Including things like atavism activation and tons of primitive and prehistoric examples, he makes a really good argument for how we could change a chicken into a dinosaur using DNA and changing its genetics.
This is something that I find really interesting, and when he explains it, it definitely makes it look like we could easily make a dinosaur from a chicken. The only issue is we need to find a dinosaur with living DNA in its blood and tissue so that we could create this Jurassic Park like creature.
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