Would you eat a chicken with dinosaur legs or a snout? Whilst you think of that . . . here's the news: A researcher at the university of Chile turned a chicken's legs into "raptorish" legs by inhibiting the IHH gene [whatever that is] in the chicken. http://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...cientists-built-a-chicken-with-dinosaur-legs/ It won't be long though before a mad scientist releases such chimera's "into the wild."
Well THis kind of is not really that surprising since chickens and dinosaurs are very closely related. I have read Dino's and birds are the most closely related species. It sounds like the mad s ientists among us are busily experimenting.
To be honest I wouldn't want to find out. Of course it will be just a chicken but I hate GMO and that fact [it will be a GM chicken] is what will keep me from eating it.
I'm pretty much freaked out about this. Could there be a possibility of the Jurassic park movie becoming true to life with all the mad experiments being done nowadays? it seems like some scientists are really going all out in trying to modify things these days. I too wouldn't even try to consider tasting a chicken leg looking like a dinosaur's leg, at least for now.
Oh my god, mot matter how much I love chicken I think that I won't be able to eat it, we all know that all the food we eat is processed millions of times but still we're talking about a really processed animal, I think that it would taste weird, and I will feel kind of guilty to eat it, lol.
It is "dinosaur-like" not in any way actually directly connected to dinosaurs. Just weird legs you can get by messing with genes. I read the full report in "Evolution" and think they are seriously over-reaching. Pity there is no picture. Why write a huge long report and not show an image of the entire bird to show the complete anatomy?
Essentially they tried to reverse-engineer the evolutionary traits of a chicken, (as birds and reptiles are currently the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs) and judging by the article, almost, but not quite, succeeded. To me, it's a great news, since if inhibiting the evolved genes can lead to a reverse-engineering of the whole evolutionary process, we can finally have some very real ideas about how the prehistoric animals actually looked like. (If you aren't in the know, the skin colour of the dinosaurs we see in the movies are entirely guesswork, as scientists can and recreate the skeletal and a part of muscular structure from dino bones, but not the skin and therefore its original colour.
