Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20140709225627/@comment-6493791-20140804204759

Even if the project's main purpose is to "resurrect their non-avian body-plan", that still doesn't change my point. Horner and the team working on this project are tampering with a modern-day chicken's genetic profile, the same way Wu worked with genetically recreated dinosaur DNA. The major difference between the two you ignored, which is no dinosaur DNA is involved in this project. This is solely changing animal gene-switches, the same way you could add a tail or extra arm on a human. There's no truth to the past in that, there's only "Look at the cool, long-tailed, K9-toothed chicken we made in a lab"