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Jack Horner: Building a Dinosaur From a Chicken
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Organization: TED
Speaker: Jack Horner
Speaker: Jack Horner
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits; including teeth, tails, and even hands; to make a "Chickenosaurus".
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11 months ago
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This video is making me hungry!