Somehow, The Asteroid Missed The Earth

‘Scientists’ are fooling with dangerous things. They did this but they weren’t trying to. That is the plot line from almost every horror movie. This is not a movie.

“A chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak has been developed by scientists”

One group of dinosaurs managed to survive the disaster. Today, we know them as birds.

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To understand how one changed into another, a team has been tampering with the molecular processes that make up a beak in chickens.

By doing so, they have managed to create a chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout and palate, similar to that of small feathered dinosaurs like Velociraptor. The results are published in the journal Evolution.

The team’s aim was to understand how the bird beak evolved, because the beak is such a vital part of bird anatomy. It has been crucial for their success. The 10,000 or more bird species occupy a wide range of habitats, and many have specialised beaks to help them survive.

But they did not set out to create a “dino-chicken”, say lead authors Bhart-Anjan Bhullar of Yale University in New Haven and Arhat Abzhanov of Harvard University in Cambridge.”

More at the BBC website