The quest to build a dinosaur

Maclean's ^ | Aug 20, 2009 | Kate Lunau

[B-Chan]

I want the drumstick!

[ASA Vet]

Thanks for one of the very few science threads still to be found here.

The deliberately ignorant have not as yet found your thread.

[6SJ7]

Horner pictures himself strolling out on stage before a crowd, just as he’s done countless times before. Instead of carrying the standard sheaf of notes or dusty slides, though, he has with him the ultimate prop: a real live dinosaur on a leash.

A dinosaur on a leash. And people think Pit Bulls are trouble!

[Shooter 2.5]

The deliberately ignorant have not as yet found your thread.

It's always the same broken promises. I remember when they found the intact mammoth and I haven't heard a thing about it's development. I also remember reading about the soft tissue and so far no DNA is extracted. It's entertaining to read but I might as well read about a flying car.

[Godzilla]

Horner was my vertibrate paleontology prof when I was an undergrad. Sharp person, but was a fanatic at that time even. Sounds like he is going further and jumping the shark.

[RedMonqey]

Didn't they see Jurassic Park?

They are just asking for trouble/sarc.

[org.whodat]

I watched this on discovery sometime back. The work with chicken eggs is something. Actually shows the tail on the chicken.

[B-Chan]

Don’t be fooled. I’m one of “them”! We Catholics accept the evidence of paleontology, but not the hypothesis that life began by chance or evolved by random mutations. Frankly, Darwinism just doesn’t make sense.

That being said, it’s obvious that all sorts of weird and wonderful animals such as dinosaurs once existed, and I enjoy reading about them.

[roadcat]

(Experiments to find Hox genes were straight out of a horror movie: scientists created insects with legs where their mouths should be.)

Put the legs where the mouth should be - would make carving the beast much easier! Looking forward to some big chicken legs, twenty-inch length will do just fine.

[SunkenCiv]

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20” and 4 per bird!

[ElkGroveDan]

I met this guy once when I was going to MSU in Bozeman I think maybe about 1985. But that was before Jurassic Park and the paleontology rock star that he became.

[dfwgator]

“Life finds a way.”

[ElkGroveDan]

It's entertaining to read but I might as well read about a flying car.

...or wrist-watch sized televisions. Give it time.

[RichInOC]

What could possibly go wrong?

[B-Chan]

SCIENTIST BREEDS LIVING DINOSAUR
FROM FOSSIL DNA
___________

Women, Minorities Hardest Hit

[John O]

There’s a movie called Carnasaur (Carnosaur?) that deals with this premise. Unfortunately in that movie the mad scientist type spreads the DNA through a virus that infects all mankind. (Would have been a good movie if not for that twist)

[Señor Zorro]

The headline seems a little misleading. Even if he succeeds, he will not have bred a dinosaur that lived. Instead, he will have spliced DNA for a new, dinosaur-like creature using a chicken as a base. It isn’t like Jurassic Park because he isn’t resurrecting an ancient creature, but breeding (with the help of genetic alteration) a new one.

Just some morning nitpicking for you.

[coconutt2000]

By making a few genetic tweaks to its modern-day ancestor, the bird,

Oops. I think he meant descendant.

[colorado tanker]

Mr. Horner? Mr. Horner? Hello? Anyone home? Anyone?

Uh-oh, WHAT'S THAT!