Dinosaurs are about to re-export?

Jack Horner, curator of the paleontological museum at the Rockies Museum, said he and some colleagues are trying to create dinosaurs from chickens.

The goal is to reconstruct many of the characteristics of dinosaurs, such as tails, teeth and arms, by altering the extent to which regulatory proteins have evolved to hinder these traits developing in species. Modern birds.

"Birds are also dinosaurs, so we are technically creating a dinosaur from a dinosaur," Horner explained. "The only reason we use chickens instead of birds is because the chicken genome has been mapped, and scientists have studied chickens very well."

Figure simulating the process of creating chickens from dinosaurs .

Horner made the announcement the same time he released the book: "How to create a dinosaur: Extinction is not forever".

Horner and some colleagues, as scientist Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal (Canada) are working on the project. They are analyzing the genes involved in tail development and studying how to control chicken embryos to "awaken the dinosaur inside the chicken".

Horner did not reveal how far the project was made, but he said that he and his colleagues are actively taking the necessary steps to complete. Maybe we're going to see a chicken with a dinosaur-like tail.