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[wjfox]

The Jurassic Park scientist who plans to turn a chicken into T Rex

In a lab in the Montana Rockies, the palaeontologist who advised Spielberg on the making of 'Jurassic Park' tells Nick Collins how he is using genetics to create a modern-day dinosaur.

http://www.telegraph...into-T-Rex.html

[wjfox]

"... Horner is confident that the project will be complete by the end of the decade. By then, he hopes to have modified the DNA so the chicken grows with teeth, arms, a long tail and any other dinosaur-like qualities his team can give it."

[Eonist1]

So far the geniengineering goes to bacteria, J.Craig Venter etc. I think large animals are still beyond our grasp.

[Craven]

I think it's possible, but I'm much more interested in bringing back mammoth than creating some wierd chicken mutant

[Shimmy]

Chicken T Rex mutant > mammoth. Mammoths have already lived and basically just look like big hairy elephants. I'd prefer completely new mutant creatures like this one, assuming they can grow it much bigger than a normal chicken, or it would just be crap. Saying that, I would still be happy to pay money to go to the mammoth zoo and ideally pay for some kind of mammoth ride. Similarly sabre toothed tiger would be cool but not as cool as some kind of half cow, half triceratops mixture. On a related topic why do they always want to use a chicken? Surely an ostrich would make a better looking dinosaur just in basic size alone? Is is it just easier because their eggs are smaller or is the dna somehow easier to work with? I suppose they could practice on chickens and then do an ostrich maybe.

[mic of orion]

only if thy make a very small t-rex say size of little chick

[Zeitgeist123]

a chicken-sized dinosaur is a good idea. you can have them as pets in your backyard so they can chase the racoons and and eat the squirrels piranha-style.

Edited by Zeitgeist123, 19 November 2011 - 06:00 PM.

[Logically Irrational]

a chicken-sized dinosaur is a good idea. you can have them as pets in your backyard so they can chase the racoons and and eat the squirrels piranha-style.

Would you want a piranha with legs running around your house though?

[Zeitgeist123]

^^hehe, i was just being sarcastic..

[Logically Irrational]

^^hehe, i was just being sarcastic..

Got it.

[GNR Rvolution]

I'm guessing pretty much most of this thread is made of sarcasm For me it would have to be part bee part brontosaurus...

[eacao]

a chicken-sized dinosaur is a good idea. you can have them as pets in your backyard so they can chase the racoons and and eat the squirrels piranha-style.

Introduced species always have side-effects on a biosphere. Here in Australia, we are still fighting off the cane toads which are destroying parts of our ecosystem, making many lizard species go extinct.

[CyberMisterBeauty]

I think it's possible, but I'm much more interested in bringing back mammoth than creating some wierd chicken mutant

No,it would be much nicer to see all sorts of bizarre and surreal being to be possible to create.Jurassic park and other movies will be reality.


ps:The dinosaur will eat the scientist .

[Shimmy]

ps:The dinosaur will eat the scientist .

Not if the dinosaur is the scientist. Since experimenting with animals can be considered cruel and experimenting on other humans too risky, it makes sense that all scientists investigating genetic mixing should be their own subjects.