#retro engineering

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Chickens grow dinosaur legs in new experiment

Every Jurassic Park movie seems to be building up to the big question of whether we will ever see a living dinosaur again. While the likelihood of reviving extinct creatures from amber is almost zero, some scientists think an alternate route is possible – by genetically engineering a chicken and creating a “chickensaurus.”

A researcher named Joao Botelho has successfully managed to genetically recreate a longer fibula in a bird embryo.

Image by Christopher Srnka