Scientists are devolving chickens into dinosaurs. How long until they escape into the wild?
And when do we get to eat them?
>>2059597
Sadly, they haven't even managed to make them hatch alive yet.
>>2059664
They where actually aborted before they had a chance to hatch for 'moral' reasons.
>>2059597
Chickens are dinosaurs.
>chickensaurus
Jack Horner please go.
>>2059714
Fuck you. Everytime he was called crazy he proved he was right. Man is a genius.
>>2059597
Got a link or are you making shit up?
>>2059597
I hope they master this technique in chickens soon so they can star doing it with hawks, harpy eagles, vultures, cassowaries and all kinds of badass birds.
>>2059751
It's like you want a real life Jurassic park accident to happen
>>2059597
What the fuck? Got a sauce?
>>2059751
Never!
>>2059757
Of course I do! It would be way cooler than the zombie apocalypse some people want.
goddamn they should hatch them, ethics be damned. I wanna see.
>>2059751
And then, ravens
Then we basically lost
>humans feel so intimidated by the intelligence and craftiness of some modern birds that they try to send them back into the dinosaur age
>>2059737
http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/when-will-we-see-a-dino-chicken-15052.htm
>>2060969
And for the non-Americans who want some more understanding:
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur
>>2059703
>They where actually aborted
Sauce
That really pisses me off.
>>2059597
If they escape into the wild and breed their offspring would be normal chickens, so they won't be a threat after one generation. They are not changing the chicken genome, they are changing how they develop in the egg using hormone treatment.
>>2061359
hormones effecting gene expression can be passed down, though. How and to what extent we're still not sure. we found that out in that one experiment where mice developed an instinctual fear of certain scents in just one generation.
http://www.nature.com/news/fearful-memories-haunt-mouse-descendants-1.14272
>>2059751
>I hope they master this technique in chickens soon so they can start doing it with [...] cassowaries and all kinds of badass birds.
>cassowaries
There are easier ways to let the world know that you hate life, man.
>>2062041
Interesting.
>>2062167
Do you think this adorable ball of fluff could even hurt a fly?
>>2062331
Looks harmless to me desu senpai
>>2062331
>>2062339
And they purr like kittens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcQO6Zb8Eg
and would murder us all if it could, but damn if it isn't cute, why must nature make the most adorable creatures unpettable!
>>2062331
In few cases, they've been known to kill people. Not sure if it's intentionally though.
>>2062331
Unless flies are suddenly immune to six in talons, then yes, yes I do. Cassowaries may prefer not to be bothered with humans and our bullshit, but that doesn't mean one would think twice about ripping a grown man a new asshole if he did something stupid around them.
How much do I have to pay someone to breed these dino birds to the size of ostriches, and breed a featherless version.
I want a fucking velociraptor to ride.
>>2059703
>They where actually aborted before they had a chance to hatch for 'moral' reasons.
I think you mean "were."
the 'moral' reason is that they can't survive to birth.
the mutations that remove the beak also make it impossible for them to eat and probably to breathe. So if they weren't killed they'd die anyways.
we aren't anywhere near creating a chickensaurus, and that's not at all what those scientists were trying to do anyways.
>>2062737
Where are you getting your information from?
>>2062864
a degree in dinosaur cranial anatomy.
the hard palate (palatine bones) in birds are fused to the maxillae. If they don't fuse the bird won't be able to swallow, and without a beak it's going to have a hell of a time picking up food as well. Also since the palatines participate in the interior nares (choanae), having them floating free is very likely to cause the bird to suffocate when it's eating because it can't breathe through the nostrils.
These burds can't survive, not like that. OP's pic is enough to show the problem. It'd be like you trying to eat and breathe with a severely cleft palate or your face shattered with a baseball bat.
>>2059606
WAIT THAT WAS RIBS?
I THOUGHT THAT WAS LIKE AN ACOUSTIC SOUND JIGGER HOLY FUCK
>>2062871
neat
>>2062864
Probably not out of his ass, like you.
>>2059597
>muh popsci: the thread
just leave
>>2063715
jokes on him anyways.
I wasn't talking out my ass but I was drunk enough to mix "internal nares" and "anterior nares" to make "interior nares," which isn't even a thing.
makes me laugh, but I'm apparently the only person that noticed. Fucking autistic person jokes....
If crocs have the feather gene couldn't we activate it somehow to make feathered crocs as they were intended by nature?
And what about turning the feather gene of birds back into making the armoured scutes like crocs have?
so now that we brought the dinosaurs back when are we gonna do something useful? i want a pair of wings on my back and i can't wait forever.
>>2063743
>If crocs have the feather gene
they don't.
they have the feather protein as embryos. Not the gene(s) for feathers.
if they had the genes for feathers that would mean feathers evolved long before dinosaurs existed, and there's no evidence at all that that's true.
>>2063748
I doubt a functional hexapodal human capable of natural flight will be born within our lifetime.
>>2060982
>And for the non-Americans
bullocks this articles had no pictures of syrian dicks, this is not euro friendly
>>2062874
Dang your whole life has been a lie and you had to find out through /an/
>>2063724
But the way he phrased his inquiry implied you are not talking out of your ass
>>2062350
Fuck it sounds like a regular Jurassic park raptor too.
>>2062874
Are you me?
>>2060982
hey man I'm living here in Burgerstan and I still get all my news from the beeb
>>2059709
Dem dinos sure taste so guuuud
Mafaka plz
>>2062871
That is a very specific and convenient degree. I agree with your point, but I digress.
>>2066493
the degree is technically for comparative vertebrate anatomy.
I did my thesis on Allosaurus skull morphology.
It's not a random convenience, I've been hanging out on /an/ for the dinosaur threads for years. I do take an interest in some of the discussion, some of /an/ is surprisingly bright and well-informed when it comes to dinosaurs.
>>2066495
does that degree get you any work?
>>2066594
No. That would be silly.
I'm retired, I retired before I went back to school to finish up my Master's.
>>2062364
>slashes someones throat with it's razor sharp toe
woopsies! sorry about that!
>>2059732
>Everytime he was called crazy he proved he was right. Man is a genius.
lol
>>2066733
How realistic is this?
>>2066733
What did you do before you retired?
>>2059597
Dinosaur the size of a chicken? We should be so lucky that this is our worst environmental worry.
>>2059757
THERE'S NO BETTER WAY TO DIE THAN BY KILLING HUGE, CARNIVOROUS BEASTS WITH BOWS AND ARROWS.
>>2067525
the neck muscles and the teeth don't work.
it's also really damn heavy. Other than that it looks ok. Probably needs gastralia. And earholes.
>>2067539
lots of things. I served in the Marines, I worked fast food, I worked in mining. The thing that got me retired was when I got into environmental contracting for mining. I own a business that deals with hazardous waste in mining. It makes enough to keep me on my ass.
Occasionally I wander through other boards and I didn't know /an/ had such interesting stuff with knowledgeable anons. Learned a few things already.
>>2067525
Devilho is areal ho
>>2062724
Well if you wanted to ride velociraptors you probably would have to strap one to each foot, because they were tiny. And feathered, too.
>>2059597
Not even the full image? C'mon.
>>2059597
Shit is coming
There's no hidden "dinosaur DNA" inside of a chicken just waiting unlocked. They can make it look superficially like a dinosaur, but that doesn't make it one. It's not de-evolution, it's convergent evolution, the same thing that makes whale sharks look like whales despite being cold-blooded fish.
>>2062737
>>2062871
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I know enough about evolution to know that it doesn't happen all at once like with the X Men. Modern day birds are obviously the result of thousands of little mutations happening gradually over time.
So at some point, there really was a "chicken dinosaur" a living flesh and blood creature that was, in essence, half modern day bird and half ancient dinosaur.
So if THESE "hybrids" wouldn't survive having a mix of both bird and dinosaur features, then how did their ancestors survive long enough to pass on the superior genes carrying the traits that allowed the modern day bird to come into existence?
Once again, not saying you're wrong, I am genuinely confused about how a species can transition from muscled jaws full of razor sharp teeth to a birds beak.
>>2061351
>pisses you off
Every egg you eat is an aborted chicken fetus
>>2069791
>it's convergent evolution,
no, chickens are literally dinosaurs, and the descendents of other dinosaurs. They look like dinosaurs because they are.
>>2069799
the results of deactivating the genes for beak growth aren't equal to any stage in bird evolution.
because genes get lost and new ones show up and build on the old ones, so just deactivating one has effects on hundreds of other traits. Or thousands.
So turning off beak development produces unwanted effects that obviously weren't present when birds first evolved beaks.
>>2069813
>Every egg you eat is an aborted chicken fetus
just like every sperm you cum is an aborted catholic babby.
>>2069799
Ultimately the questions you ask point to the problems we have de-evolving a chicken.
for example these scientists were excited to notice that turning off the beak development resulted in a wider snout (rostrum). The reason they were excited is because both traits, the lack of beak and the wider snout are ancestral traits. So engineering one ancestral condition also produced another.
this would at first glance seem to be significant progress and encouragement along the lines of unraveling evolution.
However the two traits evolved at very very different times and weren't ever related to each other. The narrow snout in theropods evolved BEFORE DINOSAURS EXISTED. The beak evolved long after birds evolved, tens of millions of years later.
so wide rostra and lack of beak shouldn't actually be related in any particular way, the genes that produced narrow rostra aren't the same ones that produced beaks. This means the relationship in this study isn't meaningful information about the evolution of birds. It's just a random pathology that's associated with turning off beak production.
the fact that people would see the two as somehow related from an evolutionary standpoint points to a certain naïve error in thinking about evolution. The two events weren't related and occurred at vastly different points in the animals' evolution, so interpreting them as somehow related is grossly simplifying bird evolution. This is the error behind the belief that we can de-evolve chickens: a gross oversimplification of how evolution actually affects the genes.
>>2069827
trying to think how to simplify this point.
In OP's pic the scientists compare the width of the engineered chicken's snout to that of an alligator.
this implies the alligator's wide snout is ancestral, and birds and alligators share a common ancestor with a wide snout.
this is false.
the wide snout in alligators evolved quite recently and the last common ancestor between birds and alligators didn't have a wide snout.
in fact none of the ancestors or birds or alligators had a wide snout. So interpreting the wide snout as ancestral is a pretty big mistake. The similarity between alligators and the modified chicken is purely coincidental.
>>2069822
No, eggs are legit aborted fetuses
>>2069835
if you have a rooster
>>2069835
maybe the ones you eat.
>>2069839
Nah, the ones you eat are just chicken menstruation.
>>2069840
only if we imply that human menstrual product is the same as the human ovum.
as peta likes to pretend.
but of course humans lay eggs too.
>>2069817
>chickens are terrible lizards!
>they have teeth and scales and solid bones
>they have weak arms and a tail!
No they aren't. No they don't. You're a fucking retard. According to you, humans are shrews.
>>2071122
>No they aren't. No they don't. You're a fucking retard.
>The fossil record indicates that birds are the last surviving dinosaurs...
>Phylogenetic taxonomy places Aves in the dinosaur clade Theropoda.
>Many authors have used a definition similar to "all theropods closer to birds than to Deinonychus."
>Based on fossil and biological evidence, most scientists accept that birds are a specialized subgroup of theropod dinosaurs,[17] and more specifically, they are members of Maniraptora, a group of theropods which includes dromaeosaurs and oviraptorids, among others.
etc etc
>>2069089
That's why I want them to breed them to the size of ostriches.
>>2067525
What's the difference between the first one and the second?
>>2062353
I don't think dinosaurs would be much of a problem.
Just shoot them like any other animal, what's the matter?
>>2071746
muh humps.
muh humps muh humps muh humps
>>2071746
Looks like the neck frill of whatever kind is extended upwards.
Source:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12684/abstract
>>2060820
The fuck are you talking about?
