6. DINOSAUR SNOUTS ON CHICKENS?
Scientists have transformed chicken embryos to give them a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx. Scientists say they didn’t create a “dino-chicken” just for the heck of it. They want to find the molecular mechanism involved in creating the skeleton of the beak.
“Little work has been done on what exactly a beak is, anatomically, and how it got that way either evolutionarily or developmentally,” says Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, a paleontologist at Yale University.
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