Create dinosaurs from ... chicken embryos

A Canadian paleontologist is planning to use chicken embryos to create an extinct dinosaur millions of years ago.

Scientist Hans Larsson, of McGill University (Montreal, Canada), on August 26, said he believed that through genetic intervention during the development of chicken embryos, he could recreate dinosaur corpses.

Scientist Hans Larsson (Photo: CTV.ca)

Although still in the ' gestation ' phase, this study has rekindled the hope of reviving prehistoric animals. However, Larson said he had no plans to create live dinosaurs for objective and ethical reasons.

" It is a proof of evolution. If I can create dinosaurs from chicken embryos, this will be evidence that today's birds are descendants of dinosaurs ," the scientist had 10. years of bird evolution study said.

Larsson's research was funded by the Canadian Council of Science and Technology Research, Canadian Scientific Research Program and the National Geographic Society.

Larsson said the idea came to him after meeting Jack Horner, a paleontologist who worked as a technical advisor to the Dinosaur Park series.

It is known that Larsson's group specializes in fossils of prehistoric species, including fossils of eight unknown dinosaurs and five new crocodiles in Niger (Africa). Recently, he and his colleagues discovered fossil bones of a new carnivorous dinosaur in Argentina.