Tuesday August 25, 2009, 1:40 pm
"Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at Montreal's McGill University, said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds.

Larsson believes by flipping certain genetic levers during a chicken embryo's development, he can reproduce the dinosaur anatomy, he told AFP in an interview."

Please read more at site.

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Now what? Monsantosaurs?

Tuesday August 25, 2009, 10:34 pm
Monsantosaurs! Exactly Michelle!! GMO foods and GMO vaccines - beware of them!

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 12:48 pm
Amen Kelly.

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 12:49 pm
Oops, strange things happeing here. Wrong link in, for some reason. Sorry about that guys (mumble. darn technology. laptop will fly if this keeps up) LOL on me!

here's the full story if you want to read it.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jx-BLpv3KK-DizDVnr7QMKh_7vhQ

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 3:54 pm
Thanx Michelle: I'm ambivalent about this. It is intriguing to want to prove that chickens may have evolved from dinosaurs, but the question is one of morals. If we can create Monsantosaurus (thanksMichelle) then what are our obligations to this creature and what kind of a life would it have? Do we have the moral right to do this? I'm not sure I have the answers, but those are my thoughts.

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 4:11 pm
The article goes on to say:

"Though still in its infancy, the research could eventually lead to hatching live prehistoric animals, but Larsson said there are no plans for that now, for ethical and practical reasons -- a dinosaur hatchery is "too large an enterprise." .../... "Horner recently wrote a book entitled "How to Build A Dinosaur," in which he refers to the embryo experiment as part of a quest to create a "chickenosaurus."

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I'll say it would be a big undertaking. Like Karen says,: Where would we put them? What would we do with them? would they have an appropriate life? What problems could a chickenosaurus cause? (I don't want to try to think about it. Just cleaning up after them...never mind feeding them. What if they were like "velociraptors?") Or would scientists just say, OK, we did it, now destroy it before it gets out of hand?

Fortunately Larsson himself states that there are no plans for this now! We already have giant pythons slithering around loose in Florida... I figure the best thing would be to let sleeping dinos lie...

Thursday August 27, 2009, 1:18 am
Ahhh! Me too realise the link opened up an image. I returned here for the link! :)

Thursday August 27, 2009, 12:36 pm
...thanx michelle...i like cows!!! Let's leave chickens alone too. good points ie comments.

Thursday August 27, 2009, 3:09 pm
I will take the chickenosaures after they hatch? They will probably need homes. Seriously this is not right and I do not like them fooling around with chicken embryo's, it is sickening. Chickens suffer enough making eggs for the masses and in creating poisinous vaccines.

Friday August 28, 2009, 7:47 am
I agree with Tierney. Vaccines nowadays are toxic!