Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Jack Horner 

over 5 years now this talk was before 2009

they have Limited Funding to do this you can wait a decade more to get a dinosaur can't you

mooxim Jack thinks it will be done i a decade, half that if it moves fast.

Almost 10 years now....

Keep waiting, the chickenosaurus is out there.

many people have chicken phobias from childhood experience chickens will kill mice in a heartbeat the movie Bug's Life had it right i like chickens

Lmaooo

chiickens can be vicious and kill each other - start attacking and not stop.

The Chicken from Ocarina of Time irl

Chickens are miniature velociraptors

Haha that's so funny

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LOLLL

XD

You bet! Also try the cassowary and the ostrich.

@@jondunmore4268 ostriches, cassowaries, and emus are all ratites, a group of flightless bipedal birds who are closest on the tree to the last dinosaurs, so go figure.

A fucking ostrich. They're HUGE!

"Chased by a turkey" Wot?

@@lhaviland8602 what ? He means what he said and he said what he meant so wheres the confusion

www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

I'm Zoe Ford! So I and God have an biotech idea with God's own supplements aka Supply me my needs said by him with materials according to Phillipines 4:19, to recreate dinosaurs out of nothin' and required to imprint on them, so I wanna be a biotech engineer and go to MIT, according to God!😀🙏

Hes smart but I feel like a genius would be able to acknowledge a "chickenosaurus" as a concept won't work simply because chickens are already dinosaurs, so trying to turn a chicken into a dinosaur is like trying to turn a human into a primate. Hes determined, not a genius

*in arnie voice

You made my day bro :)

ThePrehistoricMaster Im already back bitches

pew pew pew wait till im big and strong enough to eat you humans pew pew

Mas A Try to doo the same with a casuway lol

Paul R. where is it?

I know right? Better than many stand up comedy i've seen

I was suprised no one was laughing hes got dry humour ,"we didn't find dna but we did find evidence of protein" protein in bone woow haha

the sixth grader disagree

@@tbg008 There's comedy today? Where? It's as extinct as the dinosaurs!

Wait did you just call him dumb?

@@meghanachauhan9380 I don't think that's what he/she said

@@kha30s22 how do you know what he said, where u there when he said it?

Ironic

to assume that we would be able to make sense of the order that exists in the universe is folly number 1

Sorry about the confusion... There is order in the Universe - human knowledge is just trying to discover it! Many many thousands of person-hours of work have gone into figuring out the puzzle of What Are Birds? The overwhelming weight of evidence points to the conclusion that bird are a sub-family of dinosaurs.

Yeah, best example of that was the public outrage when Pluto was "demoted" to being a dwarf planet.

@@Nemo66577 Also, there's no reason to reduce the effort to make sense of the universe to mere vanity or delusions of grandeur etc. as I feel is often the implication of such statements. We try to make sense of things because it's useful, and many of the models we create are sufficient to make accurate predictions. Even if they're based entirely on misconceptions and all the semantics is completely arbitrary, this 'imagined knowledge' is still evidently useful.

Lenny Is A Carrot well more like reverse engineering an ancient form of the creature by unlocking ancient and dormant genes

better... 'fix people'

Yeah, as if they need 'fixing.'

Lenny Is A Carrot shut the mouth.

The chicken is a modest beast, but tasty nonetheless.

Lol I agree

joey zapata I am a chicken and I find it very offensive.

joey zapata I have a strong attraction to chickens

RandysFunhut O_o

joey zapata picture Deinonychus

I saw a different TED of his, 1st... *Where are all the baby dinosaurs?* Even better...

Yeah

Do you believe that dinosaurs value their lives? (for example, like our pet dogs... who value their lives)

@@MS-ib8xu dinosaurs like pegions ans chickens are not food they are animals and respect them

@@ezelali3188 shut up vegan, chicken is food

they already did but it looks so weird for some reason

No, There have not been any live dino chickens hatched as of now. If there were, it would be all over the news... and rich people's homes.

What if the chickenosaurus is retarded and deformed?

Wouldn't be any worse than the English Bulldog, which has problems breathing.

...but chickens already have dinosaur legs.

Stephen Velez hrello

and what a wonderful thing that is otherwise we would be nowhere near advanced as we are

Or dangerous lunatics like the character John Hammond.

I see what you did there

Stephen Velez My friend, you just hit the nail on the head. Thank you.

This is cool

Rodney Coffey crazy that Alan Grant is based off this dude

Alan Grant is based off of Jack Horner The study about duckbilled dinosaur's nesting behaviour in Montana

Yup even down to the banging hot you get women seriously look at his current wife

Michael Crichton based Alan Grant on Jack Horner

Ditto what RED Hood 23 said. Side note, George Church is basically Henry Wu

@@redhood2394 Yep. Even the fact that he studies about duck billed dinosaurs nesting habitats in Montana

A moment of accepting human limits against the god but with sadness still gonna try bcouse Hes thinking thats evolation thing so we can reverse engineering and modfy to turn back. İn the same idea next genarstion living things can bring back humans after god doomsday. So group of peope not depended the god afterlife idea survivers of nogod park. This not gonna allowed clearly by god maybe thats why dooms day not juts end of humanity or only solor system planets. Ends of this matter Realm.

Most scientists are happy and satisfied people, feeling blessed to have such a lovely and worthwhile career; so it is no wonder that many have a pretty good sense of humor!

"Where are all the baby dinosaurs," another TED talk o'his.

Favorite Mustard If the baby dinosaurs always looked different from the adults is it possible that maybe the scientists thought they were different dinosaurs?

@@stacyhaynes4832, yeah, that's what they went with. Ignoring several facts staring them straight in the face. Like bone density. You should really go watch the TED I mentioned. ⚠️🙂👍

same... still

@@nomasan Gonna be waiting a reeeeeeeal long time because this is nonsense science fiction.

It's estimated year is 2025

Kurt Jensen Kurt, you made an old soldier laugh. Thanks. I needed this.

… hahaha "Ian Malcom - The lost World"

haha

Yes

Just because we can Doesnt mean we should

Chickenosaurus

www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/

We've figured out how to make chickens develop a dinosaur snout instead of a beak (and I don't mean just a toothed beak like in the video) We've also discovered how to make chickens develop more dinosaur like legs.

have you observed the bahavior of a dinosaur?

@@carlant_III you can get an idea by observing the behavior of modern day birds. They are dinosaurs after all

@@heyaytlgno3951 😭 beautiful satire

Or show it a little tough love by beating a chicken up until it grows big teeth and long tail You may end up with a pyscho chicken instead thu but that would still be cool. A chicken that dismembers other chickens for fun

*HEY JEREMY TURN INTO A DINOSAUR RIGHT FUCKING NOW!* chicken: bawk bawk i cant bawk bawk *fires nukes at chicken*

Xi Otaibi If you raised chickens, you would know this happens. I am not joking.

Tell the chicken it does not need to identify as a chicken but as a dinosaur. Solved.

That was punny on more than one level. I salute you, sir.

+Hello 27 YAY

It's more of a 'de-evolved' chicken rather than a mutated chicken. The chicken actually starts off raptor-like and grows into a chicken, they're just stopping it from growing that way.

Actually no. A chicken nowadays is a mutated dino. They're basically looking for the mutated DNA to stop the mutations so rewind evolution.

Make Evolution Great Again.

what i'm concerned if it mutated to 100 % raptor

That's actually the prime subject for bringing back a velociraptor! I mean the bird already has man-killing talons. (the chicken subject seems a little lame; but it's the equivalent of a cheap lab mouse I guess)

I breed chickens. I can tell you it's not lame. If you have ever watched an hours old chick successfully hunting and eating prey or your rooster steel mice from your cat or god forbid, watch 7 of your hens kill and eat a ground hog in the most brutal way imaginable you would feel different. But most people don't know that chickens are vicious hunters either so I can't blame you. Look up "swamp chickens". A 3.5 foot tall dino chicken that regularly fights off alligators in the bayou. (I am SOOOO breeding them next!) Personally I don't have to wait for pet dino's, I already have them! :)

trinitydraco1 seriously man. They are literally dinosaurs and are some of the oldest and most experienced land predators around.

also look up the shamo chicken. Pet dinos I say!

Cassowaryosaurus Rekt

Charlie Zilla Gallilimus is cool m8

Gallimimus is the least cool dinosaur.

Perhaps a grouse, or pheasant, a more "wild chicken", rather than a domesticated chicken who's genetics has been altered over the years as we cross-bred it for desirable culinary characteristics!

Or ornithomimus.

gallimimus literally translates to chicken mimic and ornithomimus to bird mimic so gallimimus is already present here along with ornithomimus since it is a non-avian bird!

Youre not prepared for whats been learned from genetics.

Why did you quote that?

Most definitely. The only question is whether it's cruel, unethical, against nature etc. A chickenosaurus was never meant to be, but then again the traits are already there laying dormant so we are only creating a variation of itself. Also you should check out the movie 'Altered States', it's about a human regressing genetically to our primitive self, really good stuff.

Daniel Simpson True, but by that same logic, any artificially selected breeds of dogs, cats, birds, corn, etc. are unethical against nature. Nature never meant for the modern pug to be; there are many health problems associated with pugs. Also, corn was hybridized over the years by man to become the corn we know of today--the grass known as Teosinte had an important roll--and it's still being played with by scientists who add an other organism's genes into it. ...ill have to look for that movie also. It sounds interesting.

Zachary Ivan Hawkins Good points there and I totally agree it's unethical to modify nature in such ways. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean we should. I'm afraid somewhere down the line, tampered with animals/food will lose it's capability to reproduce etc (some may have already?). Or some other horrific unseen mutation branched off of one of our modifications, which would of never occurred in nature.

what if they accidentally activate a gene that makes an incredible cognitive growth so that they become smarter than us and we have planet of the chickens? LMAO

Mike Krammer It may be possible to manipulate them to the point of superior intelligence. Imagine that, having the roles reversed where they lock us up in cages. They would even open a restaurant chain called KFH, Kentucky Fried Humans.

They are cool. Birds of prey are dope, some parrots have near perfect mimicry abilities, and cassowaries are essentially just avian non-avian dinosaurs.

that would be a fun bird to genetically modify not! There are few if any birds more dangerous to people than the cassowary. Banding cranes and eagles poses a deadly risk. and my friend nearly got killed by an owl when he was climbing it's tree. I got pecked by a woodpecker once.

Unfortunately it is not all ex-genes, but mostly tandem repeats and a lot of endogenous retroviruses!

There is no redundant DNA; it all actually does something during your development as progressively genes are switched off. This is how you have differentiated organs performing different functions, and how your body is able to repair itself when damaged.

The majority of it is said to be completely non-functional - that is, until we figure out what it does. Is it just extra DNA that we don't need or do we simply not understand what it does? If you can't see the effect something has, its fairly easy to say it doesn't do anything.

All birds are cos they evolved from a specific dinosaur family group

Glo-Chicken will get lots of funding from FOX.

The head is doing good

www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/

Nosferatu It's 2017 and dinosaurs still exist in your imagination, much like men on the moon and North Korean despots.

2018 update?

You don't believe in men on the moon?

Well, as long as he gets funding to pursue his life dream. ... But we know you gotta offer potential for profit in the research, hah. Worrying.

IndianaJoel93 I think they'd show us a hatchling if the egg hatched. Maybe their technology isn't developed enough for those dinosaurs to live... OR they managed the chicken to stop retracting its teeth only for a short time period.

IndianaJoel93Joe. If you will look up and listen to Jacks' friend Hans Larsen (only one geneticist working on this problem) you'll find that the genetic variations so far attempted are not really viable. They are able to cause teeth to occur in the chicken embryo but the head (in particular the 'mouth' structure) cannot support this variation. The current genetic status of the bird skull is a 'beak' not a mouth per se. Consequently the fetus will not survive past that particular 'stage' of development. But it does give them an idea as to when and where to turn on and/or off gene activation. It's a matter of figuring the puzzle. First and foremost, they have to be able to sequence a full genome for what ever animal they wish to clone. Turns out the 'information' is still there but figuring out the 'language' of this information is the difficulty. Even tho it has a very simple 'base', the 'language' is quite complex. So, as of this time they can perform some back engineering but not enough to allow the animal to survive to adult phase. Hang in there and keep looking.

Paul Stovall That's what annoys me about genetics and evolution. It's such a tease! The potential is there, and its done amazing things in the past, but we're so, so far away from truly unlocking it.

IndianaJoel93 Not necessarily Joe. What with the 'military' and commercial advantages there are, we stand a good chance. You'd probably be surprised what goes on in underground, high financed 'black labs'. The genome, as I mentioned is a simple base of no more than four characters. The complexity comes in the sheer volume. That and DNA must follow prescribed 'codes' but otherwise is quite 'fluid' within it's own dynamic. That and it can re-use what it has already developed to overcome different environmental pressures. Your DNA is nine feet long. If expanded so it's width would equal one quarter inch, it would stretch from L.A. to New York. This in just the nucleolus of each of your 7 trillion cells.(except red blood cells). Incredibly complex. As for 'ancient' DNA, it breaks down easily. We get 'snippets'. It's kinda like having 20 or so sets of Encyclopedia Britannica printed on fragile rice paper during a hurricane that tends to fall apart. And only a piece of a page now and then at that. BUT. The code and it's dynamic is now much better understood. We can 'type' artificial DNA with printers. All we need is a full genome and to know when and where to turn off the genes during fetal development. Just like Nature only without the 'environmental' pressures that life itself has, in large part implemented to keep itself strong.. It's scary and we're already creating 'chimera' (organisms not found in Nature). Trust me. If it can be either weaponized or turned to money, it will be done. Do we have to wisdom to NOT do what should not be done is the question. Answer? Probably not and we'll pay dearly for that as will all species. Will these new 'species' persist? Given time, no doubt but 'life' as a whole will also. Chickens to dinosaurs? It will no doubt be done. DNA has been around for a very long time. It doesn't care what form (species or any number thereof) it takes. It will 'persist'. DNA IS the 'STUFF' of life and it has controlled and changed this planet for literally billions of years. Once let loose?? We are already seeing some of the ramifications thanks to Monsanto and related genetics corporations out for the 'money'. How do you justify a 'patent' on a life form? And now we know how to 'play' with it. Kinda like a bunch of preschoolers playing with loaded 45;s, Be well.

IndianaJoel93 Bye the bye. There was just a story posted in the news that a genetics team managed to glean a chicken embryo with actual mouth parts instead of a beak. The code is there (a genetic 'history' if you will held within the DNA). It just needs the ability to be read and manipulated.

@Deimos Cain I saw the first glowing mice at a museum, after they retired from research they got to live in the Mars exhibit where i worked.

well its an age problem..dinosaurs come from WAY further back than the other ones you mentioned. Finding DNA/protein from such beings is nearly impossible as of now whereas the others are actually possible. The chances of finding DNA that could be used diminishes with time..and I'm not talking finding samples from 10-15 thousand years ago, which is kinda doable..if we are talking dinosaurs its more like 80-100 million years ago or so..thats why scientists have dropped that idea. You might get to see a chicken dinosaur in your lifetime though :) and thats kinda interesting.

+wendel88 Yeah, the half life of DNA also is a giant problem, because even if we find Dino DNA, it probably won't be anywhere near complete.

If they decide to make the same genetic changes to other birds, such as ostriches (which can get up to, in some cases, 9 feet tall!), we might have something pretty darn interesting. And dangerous.

As much as I would like to see a reverse engineered dinosaur, it seems ethically right to try and bring back a lot of the species who's extinctions we are directly responsible for. And after we show that we can do it effectively we can go even bigger.

Justin Jacobs Yeah bringing back dinosaurs seems completely immoral to me but bringing back animals that humans made extinct has some sort of an ethical duty attached to it I think, I like that idea.

isnt george church dyslexic with adhd and narcolepsy? another awesome biologist

Cassowary looks like guanlong

Same happened with chihuahua.

Fucking, Gold

Chicken lives matter. Make chicken great again.

Yeah but imagine how much more rewarding eating the chicken would be if it was a fight to the death and the chicken lost!

MrsRazor66 So no more Bearkiller or Tiger Hunter or crocodile wrestler but Chicken Eater?

They be like “mmmhhmm, humans tastes like chickens.”

I dOn'T KNow..... :(

Emre Geylani ancestor grandfather daddy what kind of dinosaur is that?🕶

the Duke had more hair!!

Unless it's called Vista. :P

All I see in the chicken is a patched mess. In an attempt to save energy, long-term evolution is wasting it, by not changing the base code but live-applying hotfixes to every single instance.

İn time not easyier. Can you go win 3.1 without get 98 to 95. Also dont forget jpark pcs uses pre win95 to imposible to even get that pc forget About dinos.

They are mere children compared to what he has accomplished in his field. His reputation is his "armor"!

just hope that it's not Biosyn

but rex just means king

You could feed a whole village with one bucket!! :D

In asia that's dog.

@@PeterWalkerHP16c Do you mean they Wok their dogs? :D

Fried Chicken Tails and Hands