{"id":9874,"date":"2011-06-07T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/06\/07\/jack-horner-building-a-dinosau\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:17:49","slug":"jack-horner-building-a-dinosau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/jack-horner-building-a-dinosau\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He&#8217;s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he&#8217;s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits &#8212; including teeth, tails, and even hands &#8212; to make a &#8220;Chickenosaurus&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011\/Blank\/JackHorner_2011-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JackHorner-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1163&#038;lang=eng&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=animals_that_amaze;event=TED2011;tag=Science;tag=genetics;tag=paleontology;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He&#8217;s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he&#8217;s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits &#8212; including teeth, tails, and even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/jack-horner-building-a-dinosau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2zg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}