Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20140709225627/@comment-1187034-20140804205804

John Alfred Hammond, CEO wrote: 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. 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" Agreed. I always felt that even if Jack succeeded in creating the "Chickenosaurus", it still wouldn't be a dinosaur like he says it will be, rather a chicken with dinosaurian traits.

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.