BBC: De-evolving a Chicken Into A Dinosaur

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

This could be JP 12 or 13...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1446000/1446706.stm

...reconstructing a dinosaur from genes passed down the evolutionary tree
to modern birds might be viable before the end of the century, according
to scientists in the United States.

"On the timescale of 50-100 years... you might conceivably be able to
alter the DNA of a chicken, say, to reconstruct something that looks more
like a dinosaur," David Stern, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton
University told the BBC.