Thread:Dinosaurus1/@comment-34617431-20180625135003/@comment-33613830-20180704162453

Well, making dinosaurs using Bird DNA, in my opinion, won't bring back extinct species of dinosaurs, but rather make a new species that looks, behaves, acts, and is distantly related to a dinosaur (considering that it has primitive non-avian bird (or dinosaur) DNA and advanced avian bird (or modern day bird) DNA).

Take for example, the Chicken. Horner stated that they can make a dinosaur using a Chicken, by editing the DNA sequence of a Chicken's embryo and editing the physical parts of that Chicken (ie. making the tail longer, making the beak into a snout with sharp teeth, turning the wings into arms with three clawed fingers, etc.). Due to the shape of the Chicken, they can make a theropod-esque species (I think they would go for a dinosaurid chicken with dromaeosaurid features). That way, you would have a Chicken with a dromaeosaurid shape, long snout filled with sharp teeth, an S-shaped neck, long arms with three long fingers each with claws, long legs with four digits (the second digit sporting a sickle-shaped claw), and a long tail. And of course, feathers.

To me, this is a synthetic species meant to represent the dinosaurs and how we can bring them back. You can call this man-made species "Chickenoraptor", but keep in mind, this never existed in the fossil record, hence this is a man-made synthetic species; another example of our possible capabilities of what we can do with this technology.