Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Video on TED.com

June 8 2011, 2:05pm

Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Video on TED.comSource: http://www.ted.comTED Talks 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 genet