Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Jack Horner

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025
  • www.ted.com Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits - including teeth, tails, and even hands - to make a "Chickenosaurus".
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  • @mooxim
    @mooxim 11 лет назад +889

    It's been more than 2 years. Where's my chickenosaurus?

    • @Ainfa
      @Ainfa 10 лет назад +69

      over 5 years now this talk was before 2009

    • @ericcam1998
      @ericcam1998 10 лет назад +32

      they have Limited Funding to do this you can wait a decade more to get a dinosaur can't you

    • @r.b.4611
      @r.b.4611 10 лет назад +10

      mooxim Jack thinks it will be done i a decade, half that if it moves fast.

    • @cooliipie
      @cooliipie 7 лет назад +35

      Almost 10 years now....

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink 6 лет назад +23

      Keep waiting, the chickenosaurus is out there.

  • @teannabyerts1904
    @teannabyerts1904 5 лет назад +628

    anybody who's ever been chased by a turkey, or looked an emu in the eye KNOWS we have dinosaurs...

    • @jondunmore4268
      @jondunmore4268 5 лет назад +49

      You bet! Also try the cassowary and the ostrich.

    • @romalea
      @romalea 5 лет назад +44

      @@jondunmore4268 ostriches, cassowaries, and emus are all ratites, a group of flightless bipedal birds who are closest on the tree to the last dinosaurs, so go figure.

    • @Nativegirl1985
      @Nativegirl1985 5 лет назад +13

      A fucking ostrich. They're HUGE!

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 4 года назад +9

      "Chased by a turkey"
      Wot?

    • @simonsaysdie3155
      @simonsaysdie3155 4 года назад +8

      @@lhaviland8602 what ? He means what he said and he said what he meant so wheres the confusion

  • @robstrickenfeary
    @robstrickenfeary 5 лет назад +312

    I was expecting him to be like "And here we have a dinosaur chicken with us today!"
    *fked up little monster chicken stumbles onto the stage*

  • @begurb
    @begurb 2 года назад +26

    He sounds like a forgotten nursery rhyme

  • @tamar7065
    @tamar7065 5 лет назад +199

    "The chicken is a dinosaur. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we classified it that way."
    This is hilarious but also something I really wish more people understood about... about science? About language? About everything. There's no inherent order to the universe--all human knowledge is us drawing neat boxes around what is actually a big mess with incredibly blurry lines.
    That is, words and categories aren't objective reality, but a tool for understanding objective reality, which is too big and too messy for those words and categories to ever fully encapsulate. When a definition stops being useful and starts limiting our thinking, we can and will change it. And this inevitably makes people scream when it happens because what they thought was objective reality was just a kind of shorthand that we swapped out for something better, and they don't understand that.
    (IDK, I'm sure there's some philosopher that has put this more elegantly but I'm running up against the limits of my vocabulary trying to explain myself here.)

    • @kingprofits9089
      @kingprofits9089 5 лет назад

      Ironic

    • @kylekendall410
      @kylekendall410 5 лет назад +1

      to assume that we would be able to make sense of the order that exists in the universe is folly number 1

    • @essentialsofbiology1643
      @essentialsofbiology1643 5 лет назад +5

      Sorry about the confusion...
      There is order in the Universe - human knowledge is just trying to discover it!
      Many many thousands of person-hours of work have gone into figuring out the puzzle of What Are Birds?
      The overwhelming weight of evidence points to the conclusion that bird are a sub-family of dinosaurs.

    • @bumbledouche3323
      @bumbledouche3323 4 года назад +1

      Yeah, best example of that was the public outrage when Pluto was "demoted" to being a dwarf planet.

    • @xergiok2322
      @xergiok2322 4 года назад +6

      @@Nemo67577 Also, there's no reason to reduce the effort to make sense of the universe to mere vanity or delusions of grandeur etc. as I feel is often the implication of such statements. We try to make sense of things because it's useful, and many of the models we create are sufficient to make accurate predictions. Even if they're based entirely on misconceptions and all the semantics is completely arbitrary, this 'imagined knowledge' is still evidently useful.

  • @T--xo2uq
    @T--xo2uq 7 лет назад +166

    My dog tried to murder a chicken and almost got killed by the rest of the flock. Dinosaurs are scary.

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 5 лет назад +11

      many people have chicken phobias from childhood experience
      chickens will kill mice in a heartbeat
      the movie Bug's Life had it right
      i like chickens

    • @kkjlkjh7080
      @kkjlkjh7080 5 лет назад +3

      Lmaooo

    • @amandahuginkiss4098
      @amandahuginkiss4098 5 лет назад +8

      chiickens can be vicious and kill each other - start attacking and not stop.

    • @hideofreakingkojima5457
      @hideofreakingkojima5457 5 лет назад +8

      The Chicken from Ocarina of Time irl

    • @ezelali3188
      @ezelali3188 3 года назад +3

      @@amandahuginkiss4098 they even commit canibalism on accident

  • @ThePrehistoricMaster
    @ThePrehistoricMaster 11 лет назад +157

    When the egg hatches, T-rex jumps out. "I'm back, bitches!"

  • @archaeodesigns3844
    @archaeodesigns3844 5 лет назад +82

    I love that, and this is very rare in academic circles, his wit and ability to engage an audience truly is directly proportional to his obvious intelligence.

    • @meghanachauhan9380
      @meghanachauhan9380 4 года назад

      Wait did you just call him dumb?

    • @kha30s22
      @kha30s22 2 года назад +1

      @@meghanachauhan9380 I don't think that's what he/she said

    • @gutzimmumdo4910
      @gutzimmumdo4910 2 года назад +2

      @@kha30s22 how do you know what he said, where u there when he said it?

  • @pete2389
    @pete2389 3 года назад +69

    This guy is literally the mad scientist in every sci fi movie

    • @dibble1331
      @dibble1331 Месяц назад

      instead of being mad about science, he’s just mad in love with students

  • @Dr10Jeeps
    @Dr10Jeeps 5 лет назад +35

    This is the second talk by Jack Horner I have listened to. He is informative and humorous. A joy to listen to.

  • @paulr.5571
    @paulr.5571 10 лет назад +582

    I like his humour.

    • @RoseBudpony1
      @RoseBudpony1 6 лет назад +6

      Paul R. where is it?

    • @tbg008
      @tbg008 6 лет назад +7

      I know right? Better than many stand up comedy i've seen

    • @Jupiter-wl9oq
      @Jupiter-wl9oq 5 лет назад +5

      I was suprised no one was laughing hes got dry humour ,"we didn't find dna but we did find evidence of protein" protein in bone woow haha

    • @のワンダーアデプト
      @のワンダーアデプト 5 лет назад +2

      the sixth grader disagree

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад +5

      @@tbg008 There's comedy today? Where? It's as extinct as the dinosaurs!

  • @DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc
    @DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc 6 лет назад +96

    Horner is such a genius. Amazing how on the bleeding edge (no ancient heme pun intended) of dinosaur research he's been during his career, especially given how difficult reading is for him with his severe dyslexia. I love that even as a serious scientist, he's still trying to make his childhood dream of having a pet dinosaur come true. I hope he gets to see chickenasauruses in his lifetime, or failing that, I hope I do in mine.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 5 лет назад

      www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

    • @tylerford8245
      @tylerford8245 2 года назад +4

      I'm Zoe Ford! So I and God have an biotech idea with God's own supplements aka Supply me my needs said by him with materials according to Phillipines 4:19, to recreate dinosaurs out of nothin' and required to imprint on them, so I wanna be a biotech engineer and go to MIT, according to God!😀🙏

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator 2 года назад +7

      Hes smart but I feel like a genius would be able to acknowledge a "chickenosaurus" as a concept won't work simply because chickens are already dinosaurs, so trying to turn a chicken into a dinosaur is like trying to turn a human into a primate.
      Hes determined, not a genius

    • @ChuckJames-wj8vg
      @ChuckJames-wj8vg 4 месяца назад

      @@ferretappreciator he means turning them into non avian dinosaurs

    • @dibble1331
      @dibble1331 Месяц назад

      uhh..i dunno man. he has a pretty mixed track record when it comes to dinosaur theories like when he’s said and keeps saying tyrannosaurus is 100% a scavenger (this is dumb). also creating our own creatures from extinct animals is just not a good idea. think of the environmental implications. thankfully this whole “chickenosaurus” science fiction bs has been dropped

  • @joeyzapata6786
    @joeyzapata6786 9 лет назад +815

    "the Velociraptor is cool, the chicken is not."

  • @ArchFundy
    @ArchFundy 5 лет назад +121

    This dude is a great presenter. Best TED talk I've seen in ages.

  • @EvolvedApe
    @EvolvedApe 5 лет назад +110

    When you realize that you've been eating dinosaurs... I told my nephew about this and now when his mom asks what he wants for dinner, guess what he says. "I want dinosaur for dinner". I love my nephew.

    • @MS-ib8xu
      @MS-ib8xu 3 года назад

      Do you believe that dinosaurs value their lives? (for example, like our pet dogs... who value their lives)

    • @ezelali3188
      @ezelali3188 3 года назад +2

      @@MS-ib8xu dinosaurs like pegions ans chickens are not food they are animals and respect them

    • @evil1st
      @evil1st 3 года назад +1

      @@ezelali3188 shut up vegan, chicken is food

  • @LennyLenward
    @LennyLenward 8 лет назад +424

    "Fix the chicken"

    • @michaelcho3564
      @michaelcho3564 7 лет назад +5

      Lenny Is A Carrot well more like reverse engineering an ancient form of the creature by unlocking ancient and dormant genes

    • @TheRomeogigli
      @TheRomeogigli 5 лет назад +2

      better... 'fix people'

    • @jodrew1845
      @jodrew1845 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah, as if they need 'fixing.'

    • @t-man5196
      @t-man5196 5 лет назад

      Lenny Is A Carrot shut the mouth.

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 5 лет назад

      The chicken is a modest beast,
      but tasty nonetheless.

  • @stephenvelez9710
    @stephenvelez9710 8 лет назад +435

    further proof that the best scientists are avid dreamers.

    • @valizamusat6682
      @valizamusat6682 7 лет назад +1

      Stephen Velez hrello

    • @wynwilliams6977
      @wynwilliams6977 6 лет назад +12

      and what a wonderful thing that is otherwise we would be nowhere near advanced as we are

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 6 лет назад +7

      Or dangerous lunatics like the character John Hammond.

    • @1TW1-m5i
      @1TW1-m5i 6 лет назад +6

      I see what you did there

    • @Mark-yb1sp
      @Mark-yb1sp 5 лет назад

      Stephen Velez My friend, you just hit the nail on the head. Thank you.

  • @jacobsmith3352
    @jacobsmith3352 8 лет назад +337

    They should have a live stream of the first dino chickens hatching.

    • @fossilftw
      @fossilftw 6 лет назад +9

      they already did
      but it looks so weird for some reason

    • @globin3477
      @globin3477 6 лет назад +26

      No, There have not been any live dino chickens hatched as of now. If there were, it would be all over the news... and rich people's homes.

    • @maukka1545
      @maukka1545 6 лет назад

      What if the chickenosaurus is retarded and deformed?

    • @globin3477
      @globin3477 6 лет назад +17

      Wouldn't be any worse than the English Bulldog, which has problems breathing.

    • @globin3477
      @globin3477 6 лет назад +9

      ...but chickens already have dinosaur legs.

  • @4STEVEJOY34
    @4STEVEJOY34 5 лет назад +16

    Little Jack Horner
    Sat in a corner
    Dreaming of a dinosaur chicken
    I must confess
    He was a success
    When he had dinosaur chicken for dinner.

  • @kurtjensen7264
    @kurtjensen7264 5 лет назад +193

    Oh sure. That’s how it starts. First it’s uuuuuuuu. Aaaaaaaaa. But then later there is running and screaming.

    • @Mark-yb1sp
      @Mark-yb1sp 5 лет назад +15

      Kurt Jensen Kurt, you made an old soldier laugh. Thanks. I needed this.

    • @norbacsam
      @norbacsam 5 лет назад +6

      … hahaha "Ian Malcom - The lost World"

    • @gazlee3208
      @gazlee3208 5 лет назад +2

      haha

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 5 лет назад +2

      Yes

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 5 лет назад +6

      Just because we can
      Doesnt mean we should

  • @aranchuica965
    @aranchuica965 4 года назад +37

    "And then he turned himself into a dinochicken. funniest thing ive ever seen"

  • @irishcoffee8201
    @irishcoffee8201 5 лет назад +46

    "you are alive when it starts to eat you"- Alan Grant, Jurassic Park

    • @trentirvin2008
      @trentirvin2008 4 года назад +1

      Rodney Coffey crazy that Alan Grant is based off this dude

    • @abhijaik70
      @abhijaik70 3 года назад

      Alan Grant is based off of Jack Horner
      The study about duckbilled dinosaur's nesting behaviour in Montana

  • @thomasrusso6722
    @thomasrusso6722 8 лет назад +153

    So it's basically a mutated chicken that looks like a raptor? WELL IM SET LETS GET TO RESEARCH AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

    • @thomasrusso6722
      @thomasrusso6722 8 лет назад +1

      +Hello 27 YAY

    • @DPAE-xc4ph
      @DPAE-xc4ph 6 лет назад +9

      It's more of a 'de-evolved' chicken rather than a mutated chicken. The chicken actually starts off raptor-like and grows into a chicken, they're just stopping it from growing that way.

    • @linkinsmommy7908
      @linkinsmommy7908 6 лет назад +7

      Actually no. A chicken nowadays is a mutated dino. They're basically looking for the mutated DNA to stop the mutations so rewind evolution.

    • @feelthepony
      @feelthepony 6 лет назад +7

      Make Evolution Great Again.

    • @thenaturalhistorian2953
      @thenaturalhistorian2953 6 лет назад +3

      what i'm concerned if it mutated to 100 % raptor

  • @in_Sourabh
    @in_Sourabh 6 лет назад +35

    Wittiest TED talk I have ever come across.
    Eagerly awaiting Chickenosaurus!

    • @nomasan
      @nomasan 4 года назад

      same...
      still

    • @LumieX
      @LumieX 4 года назад

      @@nomasan Gonna be waiting a reeeeeeeal long time because this is nonsense science fiction.

    • @bladeoftheruinedking2543
      @bladeoftheruinedking2543 3 года назад

      It's estimated year is 2025

  • @vaibhavmaswadkar1323
    @vaibhavmaswadkar1323 5 лет назад +4

    World : I'm waiting for Chickenosaurus.
    Scientists : There is no Chickenosaurus!!!

  • @Caver-Greg
    @Caver-Greg 9 лет назад +42

    I read his first book "Digging Dinosaurs" a long time ago. I've been huge fan ever since. But I did not know he had the sense of humor that he does until I saw him speak for the first time.

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад +1

      Most scientists are happy and satisfied people, feeling blessed to have such a lovely and worthwhile career; so it is no wonder that many have a pretty good sense of humor!

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 5 лет назад +2

      "Where are all the baby dinosaurs,"
      another TED talk o'his.

    • @stacyhaynes4832
      @stacyhaynes4832 5 лет назад +2

      Favorite Mustard If the baby dinosaurs always looked different from the adults is it possible that maybe the scientists thought they were different dinosaurs?

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 5 лет назад +1

      @@stacyhaynes4832, yeah, that's
      what they went with. Ignoring
      several facts staring them straight
      in the face. Like bone density. You
      should really go watch the TED I
      mentioned. ⚠️🙂👍

  • @CheeseyCHV
    @CheeseyCHV 5 лет назад +8

    I lost it when the "Chickenosaurus" bit came up at the end. xD

  • @zacharyivanhawkins251
    @zacharyivanhawkins251 10 лет назад +161

    If you could create a chickenosaurus that could be trained to be docile and carnivorous, you could make a LOT of money in the pet trade. Shit, I'd love to take a chickenosaurus out for a walk on a leash. Very interesting TED talk...

    • @Dan-or5cu
      @Dan-or5cu 10 лет назад +9

      Most definitely. The only question is whether it's cruel, unethical, against nature etc. A chickenosaurus was never meant to be, but then again the traits are already there laying dormant so we are only creating a variation of itself. Also you should check out the movie 'Altered States', it's about a human regressing genetically to our primitive self, really good stuff.

    • @zacharyivanhawkins251
      @zacharyivanhawkins251 10 лет назад +7

      Daniel Simpson True, but by that same logic, any artificially selected breeds of dogs, cats, birds, corn, etc. are unethical against nature. Nature never meant for the modern pug to be; there are many health problems associated with pugs. Also, corn was hybridized over the years by man to become the corn we know of today--the grass known as Teosinte had an important roll--and it's still being played with by scientists who add an other organism's genes into it.
      ...ill have to look for that movie also. It sounds interesting.

    • @Dan-or5cu
      @Dan-or5cu 10 лет назад +3

      Zachary Ivan Hawkins Good points there and I totally agree it's unethical to modify nature in such ways. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean we should. I'm afraid somewhere down the line, tampered with animals/food will lose it's capability to reproduce etc (some may have already?). Or some other horrific unseen mutation branched off of one of our modifications, which would of never occurred in nature.

    • @ppcondiscord7809
      @ppcondiscord7809 10 лет назад +16

      what if they accidentally activate a gene that makes an incredible cognitive growth so that they become smarter than us and we have planet of the chickens? LMAO

    • @Dan-or5cu
      @Dan-or5cu 10 лет назад +12

      Mike Krammer It may be possible to manipulate them to the point of superior intelligence. Imagine that, having the roles reversed where they lock us up in cages. They would even open a restaurant chain called KFH, Kentucky Fried Humans.

  • @brianbrewster6532
    @brianbrewster6532 5 лет назад +14

    I don't exactly know I stumbled upon this today, but this was pretty cool stuff. And since it's almost 8 years later, one can infer not a whole lot has been done towards making the elusive CHICKENSAURUS.

    • @TheHellboy1980
      @TheHellboy1980 5 лет назад

      www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/

    • @Threezi04
      @Threezi04 Год назад +1

      We've figured out how to make chickens develop a dinosaur snout instead of a beak (and I don't mean just a toothed beak like in the video) We've also discovered how to make chickens develop more dinosaur like legs.

  • @iforgot8376
    @iforgot8376 3 года назад +2

    Anyone who has ever seen a cassowary needs no convincing that birds are dinosaurs.

  • @skeletor4726
    @skeletor4726 6 лет назад +99

    Just imagine if you did this with a cassowary... Jesus

    • @account-gp4sn
      @account-gp4sn 6 лет назад +11

      That's actually the prime subject for bringing back a velociraptor! I mean the bird already has man-killing talons. (the chicken subject seems a little lame; but it's the equivalent of a cheap lab mouse I guess)

    • @trinitydraco1
      @trinitydraco1 6 лет назад +31

      I breed chickens. I can tell you it's not lame. If you have ever watched an hours old chick successfully hunting and eating prey or your rooster steel mice from your cat or god forbid, watch 7 of your hens kill and eat a ground hog in the most brutal way imaginable you would feel different. But most people don't know that chickens are vicious hunters either so I can't blame you. Look up "swamp chickens". A 3.5 foot tall dino chicken that regularly fights off alligators in the bayou. (I am SOOOO breeding them next!) Personally I don't have to wait for pet dino's, I already have them! :)

    • @skillercruz5539
      @skillercruz5539 6 лет назад +5

      trinitydraco1 seriously man. They are literally dinosaurs and are some of the oldest and most experienced land predators around.

    • @trinitydraco1
      @trinitydraco1 6 лет назад +2

      also look up the shamo chicken. Pet dinos I say!

    • @Weigazod
      @Weigazod 6 лет назад +9

      Cassowaryosaurus Rekt

  • @ae90tuner
    @ae90tuner 6 лет назад +5

    Pretty cool. Most people probably hasn't ever observed the behavior of a chicken, but I can assure you that it is definitely something you can connect with a dinosaur.

    • @carlant_III
      @carlant_III Год назад

      have you observed the bahavior of a dinosaur?

    • @heyaytlgno3951
      @heyaytlgno3951 Год назад

      @@carlant_III you can get an idea by observing the behavior of modern day birds. They are dinosaurs after all

    • @carlant_III
      @carlant_III Год назад

      @@heyaytlgno3951 😭 beautiful satire

  • @rgerber
    @rgerber 7 лет назад +283

    The process could properly being speed up, by telling the chicken *don't be a chicken!*

    • @xibaryon7628
      @xibaryon7628 7 лет назад +7

      Or show it a little tough love by beating a chicken up until it grows big teeth and long tail
      You may end up with a pyscho chicken instead thu but that would still be cool. A chicken that dismembers other chickens for fun

    • @fossilftw
      @fossilftw 6 лет назад +6

      *HEY JEREMY TURN INTO A DINOSAUR RIGHT FUCKING NOW!*
      chicken: bawk bawk i cant bawk bawk
      *fires nukes at chicken*

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 6 лет назад +2

      Xi Otaibi
      If you raised chickens, you would know this happens. I am not joking.

    • @billjensen51
      @billjensen51 6 лет назад +6

      Tell the chicken it does not need to identify as a chicken but as a dinosaur. Solved.

    • @jabrown
      @jabrown 6 лет назад

      That was punny on more than one level. I salute you, sir.

  • @ThePitbulllady1
    @ThePitbulllady1 6 лет назад

    We aren't that far from having "dino-chickens" already. Look up "Shamo chickens" here on RUclips. I breed those and they are a far cry from most people think of when they hear "chicken". Roosters can be over three feet tall and have a noticeable thumb with a claw on each wing, and in addition to often-double sets of spurs on the backs of their legs, they have an elongated inner toe claw that they can use exactly like a Raptor claw, to target major blood vessels in an opponent/victim. They are very intelligent birds, as well, really good at figuring out how to open doors to their enclosures and escape, and have beaks that can bite through most wire, like basically a set of bolt cutters for a mouth. Mine will use their feet to grasp and manipulate food items too big to be swallowed whole, much like a parrot uses its feet, and I've never seen any other chickens do that. A bad-tempered Shamo is an extremely dangerous animal, and roosters of this breed have been known to kill people. The father of one of my roosters, a bird that belonged to a fellow Shamo breeder, actually severed the finger of a farm employee that failed to heed the signs on his pen warning not to put hands inside.

  • @infamyinfamy
    @infamyinfamy 2 года назад +2

    11 years later and I'm still waiting for my chickenosaurus

  • @charliezilla685
    @charliezilla685 7 лет назад +23

    They should do the same thing on an ostrich so we can have a Gallimimus!!!!!

    • @nicoruppert4207
      @nicoruppert4207 6 лет назад

      Charlie Zilla Gallilimus is cool m8

    • @DPAE-xc4ph
      @DPAE-xc4ph 6 лет назад

      Gallimimus is the least cool dinosaur.

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад

      Perhaps a grouse, or pheasant, a more "wild chicken", rather than a domesticated chicken who's genetics has been altered over the years as we cross-bred it for desirable culinary characteristics!

    • @jakeodell4584
      @jakeodell4584 5 лет назад

      Or ornithomimus.

    • @RMSLusitania
      @RMSLusitania 4 года назад

      gallimimus literally translates to chicken mimic and ornithomimus to bird mimic so gallimimus is already present here along with ornithomimus since it is a non-avian bird!

  • @SummerBreeze106
    @SummerBreeze106 10 лет назад +10

    Fascinating. With 90% of our DNA apparently redundant, I can't help but think about how much of our ancestry is written into that DNA and just what might be possible were we able to manipulate that DNA. How completer picture of our evolution is actually still there in our DNA, how far back we could literally read that ancestral line, or even recreate, if we even wanted to. I'm sure it'd be far too fragmented to create exact replicas of what we were say 50 million years ago, but still, something to ponder. :)

    • @suelane3628
      @suelane3628 7 лет назад +1

      Unfortunately it is not all ex-genes, but mostly tandem repeats and a lot of endogenous retroviruses!

    • @alfa-rat
      @alfa-rat 6 лет назад

      There is no redundant DNA; it all actually does something during your development as progressively genes are switched off. This is how you have differentiated organs performing different functions, and how your body is able to repair itself when damaged.

    • @silverbackwrites
      @silverbackwrites 6 лет назад

      The majority of it is said to be completely non-functional - that is, until we figure out what it does.
      Is it just extra DNA that we don't need or do we simply not understand what it does? If you can't see the effect something has, its fairly easy to say it doesn't do anything.

  • @ancientmewtb
    @ancientmewtb 4 года назад +11

    He seemed genuinely sad at 9:18

    • @MrStrangermoon
      @MrStrangermoon 3 года назад

      A moment of accepting human limits against the god but with sadness still gonna try bcouse Hes thinking thats evolation thing so we can reverse engineering and modfy to turn back. İn the same idea next genarstion living things can bring back humans after god doomsday. So group of peope not depended the god afterlife idea survivers of nogod park. This not gonna allowed clearly by god maybe thats why dooms day not juts end of humanity or only solor system planets. Ends of this matter Realm.

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife 3 года назад +3

    Guys, don’t expect a live chicken-saur anytime soon. They’ve created them as embryos, but always terminate them, because of the moral issues about the chicken-saur’s quality of life.
    I’m sure there’s ways around this but sadly, we can’t meet a real life chicken-saur now…

  • @mrputter-rs
    @mrputter-rs 2 года назад +2

    Wow, the way he speaks, this man is a powerful example of will , now days if a child is dyslexic is considered disabled and segregated as special needs child. This man is using words i have a hard time pronouncing and holding a speech that keeps u entertained and interested until the last second. Absolutely fantastic.

    • @eriksaari4430
      @eriksaari4430 2 года назад

      isnt george church dyslexic with adhd and narcolepsy? another awesome biologist

  • @Srrrrrrr...
    @Srrrrrrr... 7 лет назад +9

    From Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) pg.80 "He is mad, stark, raving mad, and it's no use my trying to stop him". Seriously though, I love Jack Horner and all the controversies he causes. Probably my favorite scientist.

  • @werlostinnaniga
    @werlostinnaniga 5 лет назад +7

    its been 8 years wheres my chickenosaurus

  • @jameslee1145
    @jameslee1145 10 лет назад +43

    It's been a few years since his book (which I recommend) and this talk came out, and since then, people have been talking about recreating much more recent species, such as the woolly mammoth or Irish elk, or even species that went extinct in historic times like the aurochs, dodo, passenger pigeon or thylacine. Yet, it seems the fervor to have non avian dinosaurs again diminished. Will this plan ever be realized? Will we truly see dinosaurs (non avian ones) walk among us? Only time will tell, but I sure hope so.

    • @AndersWendelMusic
      @AndersWendelMusic 10 лет назад +11

      well its an age problem..dinosaurs come from WAY further back than the other ones you mentioned. Finding DNA/protein from such beings is nearly impossible as of now whereas the others are actually possible. The chances of finding DNA that could be used diminishes with time..and I'm not talking finding samples from 10-15 thousand years ago, which is kinda doable..if we are talking dinosaurs its more like 80-100 million years ago or so..thats why scientists have dropped that idea.
      You might get to see a chicken dinosaur in your lifetime though :) and thats kinda interesting.

    • @thomasweyand7954
      @thomasweyand7954 8 лет назад +1

      +wendel88 Yeah, the half life of DNA also is a giant problem, because even if we find Dino DNA, it probably won't be anywhere near complete.

    • @pwtato951
      @pwtato951 7 лет назад +5

      If they decide to make the same genetic changes to other birds, such as ostriches (which can get up to, in some cases, 9 feet tall!), we might have something pretty darn interesting. And dangerous.

    • @justinjacobs1501
      @justinjacobs1501 6 лет назад +5

      As much as I would like to see a reverse engineered dinosaur, it seems ethically right to try and bring back a lot of the species who's extinctions we are directly responsible for. And after we show that we can do it effectively we can go even bigger.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 6 лет назад +2

      Justin Jacobs
      Yeah bringing back dinosaurs seems completely immoral to me but bringing back animals that humans made extinct has some sort of an ethical duty attached to it I think, I like that idea.

  • @BenTvHowman
    @BenTvHowman 5 лет назад +2

    Here in Australia up in the tropics we have a bird called a cassowary. About the size and shape of an emu and it has a cool bone thing on its head and it will hit vital organs with its claw. Hence why I call the Cassowary a Velocrapter

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 5 лет назад

      that would be a fun bird to genetically modify
      not!
      There are few if any birds more dangerous to people than the cassowary. Banding cranes and eagles poses a deadly risk. and my friend nearly got killed by an owl when he was climbing it's tree.
      I got pecked by a woodpecker once.

  • @vincentsreptiles5270
    @vincentsreptiles5270 5 лет назад +9

    Jurassic Park and World: Making dinosaurs is dangerous!!!
    Paleontologists: Did we hear something?

    • @godvin9160
      @godvin9160 4 года назад +2

      Same happened with chihuahua.

  • @J_Schecter
    @J_Schecter 8 лет назад +156

    it's 2016... any updates? anyone?

    • @thomasweyand7954
      @thomasweyand7954 8 лет назад +18

      The head is doing good

    • @lionscript5613
      @lionscript5613 8 лет назад +45

      www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/

    • @gregmays5327
      @gregmays5327 7 лет назад +6

      Nosferatu It's 2017 and dinosaurs still exist in your imagination, much like men on the moon and North Korean despots.

    • @m7medkareem982
      @m7medkareem982 7 лет назад +27

      2018 update?

    • @EdwinMactalMusic
      @EdwinMactalMusic 7 лет назад +10

      You don't believe in men on the moon?

  • @Cooltural
    @Cooltural 6 лет назад +5

    "But... birds are dinosaurs... birds are living dinosaurs... we actually clasify them as dinosaurs, we now call them non avian dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs. So the non avian dinosaurs are the big clunky ones that went extinct, avian dinosaurs are modern birds...
    So we don have to make a dinosaur... we already have 'em..."

    • @DeeRose54
      @DeeRose54 5 лет назад

      They are cool. Birds of prey are dope, some parrots have near perfect mimicry abilities, and cassowaries are essentially just avian non-avian dinosaurs.

  • @DaveBath
    @DaveBath 5 лет назад +10

    Start with a cassowary. They already have the deadly velociraptor toes that rip your guts out.

  • @dacoup5955
    @dacoup5955 Год назад +2

    Honestly anyone who's pissed off a rooster before knows how bad of an idea it would be to clone a T Rex, it would be utter chaos as a roosters fury knows no bounds, when murder is on its mind there's no stopping the rampage that ensues ...

  • @HUFORIC
    @HUFORIC 4 года назад +2

    I want a ChickenSaurus!!
    google it if you've not heard of it yet, T-Rex was a big Chicken now known from partial DNA found in pregnant T-Rex fossils! thanks to birds the DNA still exists, just has to be tweaked!!!

  • @truthseeker3129
    @truthseeker3129 7 лет назад +218

    I prefer to eat chicken, not be eaten by one.

    • @pepperoni4307
      @pepperoni4307 7 лет назад +1

      Fucking, Gold

    • @Weigazod
      @Weigazod 6 лет назад +10

      Chicken lives matter. Make chicken great again.

    • @linkinsmommy7908
      @linkinsmommy7908 6 лет назад +9

      Yeah but imagine how much more rewarding eating the chicken would be if it was a fight to the death and the chicken lost!

    • @Weigazod
      @Weigazod 6 лет назад

      MrsRazor66 So no more Bearkiller or Tiger Hunter or crocodile wrestler but Chicken Eater?

    • @naviirysplays3549
      @naviirysplays3549 6 лет назад +1

      They be like “mmmhhmm, humans tastes like chickens.”

  • @Gregoji
    @Gregoji 6 лет назад +6

    10:06 "No"

  • @zharawillywonka4438
    @zharawillywonka4438 6 лет назад +26

    Literally Dr. Grant from Jurrassic Park.

    • @redhood2394
      @redhood2394 4 года назад +2

      Michael Crichton based Alan Grant on Jack Horner

    • @nikolaikostka7632
      @nikolaikostka7632 4 года назад

      Ditto what RED Hood 23 said. Side note, George Church is basically Henry Wu

    • @abhijaik70
      @abhijaik70 3 года назад

      @@redhood2394 Yep.
      Even the fact that he studies about duck billed dinosaurs nesting habitats in Montana

  • @Dowlphin
    @Dowlphin 5 лет назад

    14:20 Energy-saving nature like resource-starved game devs: Patches are being applied in immediate pre-release phase. The base code was never fixed. Long-term this actually seems to be a waste of energy. ... Oh well... humankind reflects and imitates nature. Nature makes mistakes and does clumsy things at times. Evolution is fear-driven. What else do you expect?
    So Jack Horner wants to do what they did in Jurassic Park - bring Dinosaurs into the world, but we totally won't make the mistakes they made in the movie. Because reality is much more professional and careful than the movie world. 😏 (The chances are greater that humankind annihilates itself believing they're saving the world than through nuclear world war, so don't count on its wisdom.)

  • @Eatingguy
    @Eatingguy 2 года назад +2

    I would really like to see what a chickenosaurus looks like

  • @Orick9417
    @Orick9417 7 лет назад +13

    studying these mutations, learning how to prevent them, even manipulating them will lead to a better understanding of genetics and genetic modification in the long run

    • @thetruthchannel349
      @thetruthchannel349 5 лет назад +1

      Youre not prepared for whats been learned from genetics.

  • @skyloraine6672
    @skyloraine6672 6 лет назад +10

    chickens are dinosaurs of today

    • @joshuadaltilia8480
      @joshuadaltilia8480 5 лет назад +3

      All birds are cos they evolved from a specific dinosaur family group

  • @ahfaresidence4884
    @ahfaresidence4884 5 лет назад +11

    Now 2020 I'm still waiting dude

  • @bunzeebear2973
    @bunzeebear2973 5 лет назад +2

    a CHICKEN WITH teeth. C'mon Colonel Sanders, make my day. An all chicken uprising.
    Lets make a chicken out of a Lizard.

  • @kiryuasan393
    @kiryuasan393 5 лет назад +8

    Today in my class we had a similar discussion now I'm here listening in more detail ^°^

  • @Shanethefilmmaker
    @Shanethefilmmaker 9 лет назад +64

    If this is accurate KFC should change their name to KFR Kentucky Fried Rex.

  • @JallenMeodia
    @JallenMeodia 6 лет назад +8

    2018 and they're still looking into it. Jack Horner says maybe next 10 years but as with all things who knows.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 5 лет назад +1

      Well, as long as he gets funding to pursue his life dream.
      ... But we know you gotta offer potential for profit in the research, hah. Worrying.

  • @ChristianRB89
    @ChristianRB89 6 лет назад +6

    Fellow scientists, we cant let those 6. graders down...

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад +1

      Feed them to a flock of chickenosaurs I say!

  •  5 лет назад

    I was sold as soon as he mentioned the Glo-Chicken. That on its own, is reason enough to justify whatever amount of funding this guy needs.
    A giant chicken. With the teeth of a T.Rex. A clawed, three fingered hand, like a T.Rex. And the aggression levels of its original Chicken genotype. (Cockfights?)
    I know people might have safety concerns, about these creatures escaping, but there's no need. If they escape, we just wait until it gets dark. Because they GLOW in the dark! THAT'S the way to "Fix the Chicken". The meat industry will be happy, the Pet industry will be happy. And more importantly, the sixth graders are already doing the groundwork to make this happen. Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 5 лет назад +1

      Glo-Chicken will get lots of funding from FOX.

  • @user_name_redacted
    @user_name_redacted 6 лет назад +1

    There was an experiment done with chickens, where a faux tail was placed onto them using a harness, and it made the chickens adjust their walking style to what is more than likely how dinosaurs walked

  • @wildkatarn7141
    @wildkatarn7141 3 года назад +5

    Grew up watching this guy as a kid all the way back in the 80's! He's the man JURRASIC PARK's "Alan Grant" character was based on!

  • @jovanjanevski3747
    @jovanjanevski3747 5 лет назад +3

    One decade later, where is my dino-chicken? Where is my cadillac?

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад

      the dino-chicken is coming soon, the Cadillac, well, sorry, never! :D

  • @pingguerrero2007
    @pingguerrero2007 5 лет назад +7

    Cassowary: Am I a joke to you?

  • @ofadetergentsud
    @ofadetergentsud 6 лет назад

    We need to turn chickens into dinosaurs so I can eat spicy pterodactyl wings.

  • @DragonsREpic
    @DragonsREpic 4 года назад +1

    Ever since I seen Jurassic Park as a kid (born in 91) It was on my bucket list
    Im 28 so there should be a decent chance
    If seeing a dinosaur doesn't blow humanity away I don't think anything will
    -life- science will find a way

  • @davidrazack9616
    @davidrazack9616 5 лет назад +3

    Hey Jack, it's extraordinary, you've been around long enough Sir to transmute your childhood dream.Whether your love for animals;desire for a companion; creativity for a purpose - or all of the above..1:32 into your podcast now, that execution is exceptional friend,to even share your findings just needs being addressed.1 - impossible is spelt N-O-T-H-I-N-G and 2 - just how well would audiobooks be made purposeful to further your field? David

  • @connorvaughn7968
    @connorvaughn7968 7 лет назад +35

    Reverting to an older version is always easier than updating one.

    • @Ruisu101
      @Ruisu101 6 лет назад +2

      Unless it's called Vista. :P

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 5 лет назад

      All I see in the chicken is a patched mess. In an attempt to save energy, long-term evolution is wasting it, by not changing the base code but live-applying hotfixes to every single instance.

    • @MrStrangermoon
      @MrStrangermoon 3 года назад

      İn time not easyier. Can you go win 3.1 without get 98 to 95. Also dont forget jpark pcs uses pre win95 to imposible to even get that pc forget About dinos.

  • @LemonsRage
    @LemonsRage 6 лет назад +4

    OK, OK GUYS! You know chicken wings right?
    They tast good but are kinda small. Right?
    NOW TAKE T-REX LEGGS INSTEAD OF CHICKEN WINGS!

  • @teannabyerts1904
    @teannabyerts1904 5 лет назад +1

    Back in the 60s I read The Enormous Egg
    , by Oliver Butterworth. It's precisely "getting a dinosaur from a chicken".

  • @Dowlphin
    @Dowlphin 5 лет назад

    Warning human: "We should never have ventured into this territory. Creating dinosaur chickens is too dangerous!"
    Awesome and very self-defense-capable dinosaur chicken: "I really don't like where you're going with this."

  • @karlschwinbarger105
    @karlschwinbarger105 6 лет назад +3

    Leave chickens alone Dr. Frankenstein. Of course I accept evolution but I don't agree with interfering with the development of a chicken for grotesque purposes like this.

    • @michellesullivan3221
      @michellesullivan3221 5 лет назад +1

      Seriously? How is it grotesque if he is trying to learn (and eventually prove) the evolution of dinosaurs into birds? Quit being a pansy.

  • @TheRaveCrocker
    @TheRaveCrocker 5 лет назад +7

    Can we make the chicken glow anyways since we are doing mass modification of it's genes

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 5 лет назад +1

      @Deimos Cain I saw the first glowing mice at a museum, after they retired from research they got to live in the Mars exhibit where i worked.

  • @michaelnoonan7579
    @michaelnoonan7579 9 лет назад +34

    This guy is funny

  • @CybcaGaming
    @CybcaGaming 5 лет назад

    its been 8 years now. WHERE'S MY CHICKENSAURUS??

  • @omernavaid4712
    @omernavaid4712 5 лет назад +1

    8 years ago we had theoretical chickenosaurus. Now we have the unrealized possibility of chickenosaurus. Yo biologists give me my chickenosarus. The ones I have are pretty boring.

  • @boriquayo2
    @boriquayo2 5 лет назад +4

    Life should not be manipulated for entertainment or for market. This is some real sick stuff!

    • @claudioacciari
      @claudioacciari 5 лет назад

      Agree

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 5 лет назад +2

      That's why he came up with an excuse. (A lame one.)
      We have to realize though that this has been happening for ages. It's called domestication.

    • @petarkukuljica4372
      @petarkukuljica4372 3 года назад

      wait do you have a dog cuz its the creation of this do you have a cat cuz its cuz of this do you eat alamost every evegtable its cuz of this now shut up

  • @deepelements
    @deepelements 5 лет назад +5

    This guy is pretty awesome and this was very interesting.

  • @MrGrayeagle57
    @MrGrayeagle57 5 лет назад +3

    A chicken with tail, teeth and a claw >>> Dragon.

  • @smollolollo
    @smollolollo 3 года назад +1

    ‘Jack Horner was so preoccupied with whether he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.’ Dr. Ian Malcom, 2021

  • @aspireautomobile6315
    @aspireautomobile6315 4 года назад +1

    and this is a message from 2020 ... instead of having a chickenosaurus .... we have now something called Corovirus Rex ..

  • @MrGamerman001
    @MrGamerman001 9 лет назад +7

    This is the first time I've actually seen Jack Horner... This man is hilarious! lol. Brilliant AND a comedian.... "Fix the chicken". Love it.

    • @rayerscarpensael2300
      @rayerscarpensael2300 6 лет назад

      he is a joker indeed, not a scientist, he has to fix his finds with all possible means, jokes especially, to make no,n existing ends meet

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 лет назад

      I recall him in the great "Walking with Dinosaurs" shows, decade or so ago; he was more serious, and of course brilliant in his career!

  • @johnemerick5860
    @johnemerick5860 5 лет назад +4

    I eat fried dinosaur ...🐔fix the chicken🍴

  • @punkinhaidmartin
    @punkinhaidmartin 6 лет назад +8

    It'd be more spectacular if they started with an ostrich.

    • @raggedyanarchist
      @raggedyanarchist 6 лет назад +1

      They had a plasticated ostrich in the Body Worlds display. It was striking how much it looked like something out of Jurassic Park.

    • @silverbackwrites
      @silverbackwrites 6 лет назад

      They could, but it seems the common chicken is the closest thing we have today to theropod dinosaurs, evolutionarily speaking (this is probably more from a bone structure viewpoint than anything). It may very well be that the ostrich is just a little bit further down the evolutionary line; it is still a possible candidate, but, evidently, the chicken is the better candidate (that and they're cheap, seriously, ostriches are expensive by comparison).

    • @punkinhaidmartin
      @punkinhaidmartin 6 лет назад +1

      Yeah,... plus, ostriches are already dangerous. Give it a shorter neck, a big toothy head, tail, claws, and arms and you have a nightmare critter indeed.

    • @jean-louispech4921
      @jean-louispech4921 6 лет назад

      you prefer to run from a chicken than an ostrich.

    • @punkinhaidmartin
      @punkinhaidmartin 6 лет назад

      jean-louis pech I don't think I've ever run from a chicken.
      I have run from an emu.

  • @bueler4950
    @bueler4950 5 лет назад +2

    Nice storytelling. Explain how heem, blood vessels and collagen can survive 65 million years? Explain how modern mammals and birds are found with dinosaurs in the same layers as the dinosaurs and in the stomachs of dinosaurs when supposedly they did not evolve until millions of years later?

  • @jameswhitman3934
    @jameswhitman3934 5 лет назад +2

    "Legs, thighs, breast, and tail, mmm mm that's finger lickin' good... " Said Colonel Sanders..... or Ron Jeremy?

  • @SuridAkhand
    @SuridAkhand 5 лет назад +3

    Imagine the next Jurrasic park movie about chickens 🐔 and C-Rex

  • @CompBioQuest
    @CompBioQuest 5 лет назад +6

    wow!, I didn't know cells could get fossilized !

  • @phowbow3161
    @phowbow3161 5 лет назад +1

    "Rise of the teethed killer chickensauros!" Perfect title for a horror movie ^^

  • @Lorandoriginal
    @Lorandoriginal 2 года назад

    was chased by a rooster when i was like 9… felt like a velociraptor chasing me through a jungle

  • @thedinosaurcreatorcena6303
    @thedinosaurcreatorcena6303 8 лет назад +9

    We have created a more dinosaur like leg on a chicken. 2016 update. We are also getting closer to a tail...

    • @AmatoGore
      @AmatoGore 6 лет назад

      The Dinosaur Creator CENA!! 2018 updates?

    • @davidkelly4210
      @davidkelly4210 6 лет назад +1

      It's the teeth that are tricky. Birds don't have the gene for enamel so the teeth are useless. A bit of transgenics will be needed and that's far harder to pull off (without unintended mutations) than simply turning existing genes on or off.

    • @mmosier8841
      @mmosier8841 6 лет назад

      The Dinosaur Creator CENA!! Please send link

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 5 лет назад

      @@davidkelly4210 yes, the teeth will be hard. lol. but birds do get an egg tooth... i wonder if that is a real tooth

  • @matthewshubin6538
    @matthewshubin6538 6 лет назад +38

    #FixTheChicken

  • @emregeylani
    @emregeylani 5 лет назад +3

    Atavism derives via French from Latin atavus, meaning "ancestor." Avus in Latin means "grandfather," and it's believed that the at is related to atta, an old turkish word for "daddy."

    • @eribertoacedo9505
      @eribertoacedo9505 5 лет назад +1

      Emre Geylani ancestor grandfather daddy what kind of dinosaur is that?🕶

  • @weemissile
    @weemissile 4 года назад +1

    I never understood the "birds can't be dinosaurs because they're not cool" spiel. Are hawks not cool? Are eagles not cool?

  • @ayottedrums2
    @ayottedrums2 5 лет назад

    So a dog is a dog is a dog....When you turn one into a chicken, call me....

  • @dunnel58
    @dunnel58 5 лет назад +3

    Wonderfully humourous talk. Thanks.