Paleontologist Hans Larsson is intent on creating a "chickenosaurus," or chicken with dinosaur traits, developed through a chicken embryo. Larsson was inspired to create the "chickenosaurus" after meeting with Jack Horner, a paleontologist who advised the team that created the Jurassic Park movies and the author of How to Build a Dinosaur.http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jx-BLpv3KK-DizDVnr7QMKh_7vhQ
Create a Real Dinosaur?
Larsson says it may be possible to recreate a dinosaur by manipulating the genetics of a chicken egg in the future. Although the research could 'potentially' open the doors for hatching a recreation of an actual dinosaur is "too large an enterprise."http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jx-BLpv3KK-DizDVnr7QMKh_7vhQ
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The chickenosaurus would be a chicken with dinosaur traits
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Larsson said if he can show that "dinosaur anatomical development exists in birds" it will prove that birds are descendants of dinosaurs
