'Jurassic Park' scientist aims to hatch a dinosaur using DNA from birds-Emus

[Steely Dan]

'Jurassic Park' scientist aims to hatch a dinosaur using DNA from birds
By Ted Thornhill and Zoe Brennan
UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 29 December 2011

...Horner explains that to make a dinosaur, he would start with the genome (the whole hereditary information encoded in the DNA) of an emu.

‘Emus have all the features we need in order to make a Velociraptor-sized dinosaur,’ he says.

‘If I were to make a dinosaur, that is where I’d start.’...

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Take that emu doubters. When you're taking your grandkids to see the dinosaurs at a Jurassic Park, thank the emus! :snooty:

 

[Donjeta]

Would that be an emosaur?

 

[Steely Dan]

Would that be an emosaur?

Whatever you'd call it, it would be one bad ass animal! :rocker:

 

[TrackerSam]

Would that be an emosaur?

Ist it too late to stop them?

How do you make an emu sore? Ans. Give it a full length mirror. :floorlaugh:

 

[Steely Dan]

Ist it too late to stop them?

How do you make an emu sore? Ans. Give it a full length mirror. :floorlaugh:

 

[inthedark14]

You guys are fun...even though big birds are scary...(they're so like the dinosaurs)...no one would dare hurt an emu. Unless they come after you like a rooster, then all bets are off!

 

[TrackerSam]

An emusaur. You can google it and if it's on the internet it must be true.
" Last one in the tar pit's a rotten egg and when I evolve I'm going to be beautiful and you'll be dead - so there"