Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20140709225627/@comment-1259419-20140805064517

I think you are both oblivious to Horner's aim with the project. Horner has made it clear 1000s of times in his book that it is debatable what the Chickenosaurus would be. He said that he was looking forward to show the creature to an audience and ask "can anyone tell me what this is?"

Still, I do not think you give Horner enough credit. They are not adding alien body part to a chicken, they are literaly re-activating embryonic pathways that still exist but are shut down early in embryonic development. Giving a chicken back its tail is a genuine atavism. If chickens were created by God and would not have a vesicle mini-tail, Horner's project would be impossible.

I feel the only to get that chicken's tail long and bony is to use DNA from dinosaurs closest to birds, or better yet, DNA from enantiornithines.

Silly. They are not gonna use ANY DNA modification. The chicken ALREADY HASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS the mechanism to grow a tail. It is just shut down early in development. Horner is trying to re-activate the pathway with hormone treatment. You do not need Dino DNA for it. The Dino DNA is ALREADY IN THERE.