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.
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!😀🙏
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
@@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.
"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.)
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Favorite Mustard If the baby dinosaurs always looked different from the adults is it possible that maybe the scientists thought they were different dinosaurs?
@@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. ⚠️🙂👍
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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!
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)
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! :)
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.
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…
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."
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 ...
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.
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
We aren't that far from having "dino-chickens" already. Look up "Shamo chickens" here on TH-cam. 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.
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.
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
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
There's a saying that we should never show our plans to anyone or our plans would fail. This is the proof of that. Everything he said is very possible but it doesn't come to fruition because what should be a top secret, he spill to the public
Depends on what they're gonna do with it. The latest movie said they don't look like the real thing because the boss of the park wants to have them portrayed in way where people would recognize them. Which, to anyone not interested beyond seeing the movies (=same as visiting the park just because it's cool, even if you don't particularly care about dinos), are still lizards. In the third movie there were already some hints of feathers. The problem is, even scientists aren't too sure how they looked like, aside from a few rare species here and there. Especially bigger ones like the T-rex or even the Velociraptors. It's just safer to keep them scaley and explain why, that portray them with feathers and a few years later find the depiction didn't make any sense in nature.
It makes senses to keep some form of scales on the larger dinosaurs which didn't need insulating. Much like modern day elephants which have a thick skin and sparse hair. At least Jurassic Park moved away from the lumbering, dim witted reptile image of dinosaurs in favour of avian behaviour.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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
"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..."
They are cool. Birds of prey are dope, some parrots have near perfect mimicry abilities, and cassowaries are essentially just avian non-avian dinosaurs.
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!!!
if birds had examples of recessive genes I'd say maybe you could get there as their short life cycle would make it easy to isolate such a genetic expression, I'm sure if that was the case there would be lots of pictures everywhere of such examples....
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*
Haha that's so funny
😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOLLL
XD
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.
www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns
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!😀🙏
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
@@ferretappreciator he means turning them into non avian dinosaurs
This is the second talk by Jack Horner I have listened to. He is informative and humorous. A joy to listen to.
anybody who's ever been chased by a turkey, or looked an emu in the eye KNOWS we have dinosaurs...
You bet! Also try the cassowary and the ostrich.
@@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.
A fucking ostrich. They're HUGE!
"Chased by a turkey"
Wot?
@@lhaviland8602 what ? He means what he said and he said what he meant so wheres the confusion
He sounds like a forgotten nursery rhyme
It's been more than 2 years. Where's my chickenosaurus?
over 5 years now this talk was before 2009
they have Limited Funding to do this you can wait a decade more to get a dinosaur can't you
mooxim Jack thinks it will be done i a decade, half that if it moves fast.
Almost 10 years now....
Keep waiting, the chickenosaurus is out there.
My dog tried to murder a chicken and almost got killed by the rest of the flock. Dinosaurs are scary.
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
Lmaooo
chiickens can be vicious and kill each other - start attacking and not stop.
The Chicken from Ocarina of Time irl
@@amandahuginkiss4098 they even commit canibalism on accident
"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.)
Ironic
to assume that we would be able to make sense of the order that exists in the universe is folly number 1
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.
Yeah, best example of that was the public outrage when Pluto was "demoted" to being a dwarf planet.
@@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.
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.
Wait did you just call him dumb?
@@meghanachauhan9380 I don't think that's what he/she said
@@kha30s22 how do you know what he said, where u there when he said it?
This guy is literally the mad scientist in every sci fi movie
I like his humour.
Paul R. where is it?
I know right? Better than many stand up comedy i've seen
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
the sixth grader disagree
@@tbg008 There's comedy today? Where? It's as extinct as the dinosaurs!
When the egg hatches, T-rex jumps out. "I'm back, bitches!"
*in arnie voice
You made my day bro :)
ThePrehistoricMaster Im already back bitches
pew pew pew wait till im big and strong enough to eat you humans pew pew
Mas A Try to doo the same with a casuway lol
This dude is a great presenter. Best TED talk I've seen in ages.
I saw a different TED of his, 1st...
*Where are all the baby dinosaurs?*
Even better...
Yeah
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.
Do you believe that dinosaurs value their lives? (for example, like our pet dogs... who value their lives)
@@MS-ib8xu dinosaurs like pegions ans chickens are not food they are animals and respect them
@@ezelali3188 shut up vegan, chicken is food
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.
This is cool
"Fix the chicken"
Lenny Is A Carrot well more like reverse engineering an ancient form of the creature by unlocking ancient and dormant genes
better... 'fix people'
Yeah, as if they need 'fixing.'
Lenny Is A Carrot shut the mouth.
The chicken is a modest beast,
but tasty nonetheless.
They should have a live stream of the first dino chickens hatching.
they already did
but it looks so weird for some reason
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.
What if the chickenosaurus is retarded and deformed?
Wouldn't be any worse than the English Bulldog, which has problems breathing.
...but chickens already have dinosaur legs.
further proof that the best scientists are avid dreamers.
Stephen Velez hrello
and what a wonderful thing that is otherwise we would be nowhere near advanced as we are
Or dangerous lunatics like the character John Hammond.
I see what you did there
Stephen Velez My friend, you just hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
"you are alive when it starts to eat you"- Alan Grant, Jurassic Park
Rodney Coffey crazy that Alan Grant is based off this dude
Alan Grant is based off of Jack Horner
The study about duckbilled dinosaur's nesting behaviour in Montana
Wittiest TED talk I have ever come across.
Eagerly awaiting Chickenosaurus!
same...
still
@@nomasan Gonna be waiting a reeeeeeeal long time because this is nonsense science fiction.
It's estimated year is 2025
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.
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!
"Where are all the baby dinosaurs,"
another TED talk o'his.
Favorite Mustard If the baby dinosaurs always looked different from the adults is it possible that maybe the scientists thought they were different dinosaurs?
@@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. ⚠️🙂👍
"the Velociraptor is cool, the chicken is not."
Lol I agree
joey zapata I am a chicken and I find it very offensive.
joey zapata I have a strong attraction to chickens
RandysFunhut
O_o
joey zapata picture Deinonychus
Oh sure. That’s how it starts. First it’s uuuuuuuu. Aaaaaaaaa. But then later there is running and screaming.
Kurt Jensen Kurt, you made an old soldier laugh. Thanks. I needed this.
… hahaha "Ian Malcom - The lost World"
haha
Yes
Just because we can
Doesnt mean we should
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.
www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/
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.
Now 2020 I'm still waiting dude
So it's basically a mutated chicken that looks like a raptor? WELL IM SET LETS GET TO RESEARCH AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
+Hello 27 YAY
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.
Actually no. A chicken nowadays is a mutated dino. They're basically looking for the mutated DNA to stop the mutations so rewind evolution.
Make Evolution Great Again.
what i'm concerned if it mutated to 100 % raptor
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I lost it when the "Chickenosaurus" bit came up at the end. xD
"And then he turned himself into a dinochicken. funniest thing ive ever seen"
Chickenosaurus
The process could properly being speed up, by telling the chicken *don't be a chicken!*
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
*HEY JEREMY TURN INTO A DINOSAUR RIGHT FUCKING NOW!*
chicken: bawk bawk i cant bawk bawk
*fires nukes at chicken*
Xi Otaibi
If you raised chickens, you would know this happens. I am not joking.
Tell the chicken it does not need to identify as a chicken but as a dinosaur. Solved.
That was punny on more than one level. I salute you, sir.
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.
Why did you quote that?
He seemed genuinely sad at 9:18
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.
Start with a cassowary. They already have the deadly velociraptor toes that rip your guts out.
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!
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. :)
Unfortunately it is not all ex-genes, but mostly tandem repeats and a lot of endogenous retroviruses!
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.
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.
Today in my class we had a similar discussion now I'm here listening in more detail ^°^
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
Youre not prepared for whats been learned from genetics.
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
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.
Literally Dr. Grant from Jurrassic Park.
Yup even down to the banging hot you get women seriously look at his current wife
Michael Crichton based Alan Grant on Jack Horner
Ditto what RED Hood 23 said. Side note, George Church is basically Henry Wu
@@redhood2394 Yep.
Even the fact that he studies about duck billed dinosaurs nesting habitats in Montana
They should do the same thing on an ostrich so we can have a Gallimimus!!!!!
Charlie Zilla Gallilimus is cool m8
Gallimimus is the least cool dinosaur.
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!
Or ornithomimus.
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!
Just imagine if you did this with a cassowary... Jesus
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)
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! :)
trinitydraco1 seriously man. They are literally dinosaurs and are some of the oldest and most experienced land predators around.
also look up the shamo chicken. Pet dinos I say!
Cassowaryosaurus Rekt
10:06 "No"
2018 and they're still looking into it. Jack Horner says maybe next 10 years but as with all things who knows.
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.
World : I'm waiting for Chickenosaurus.
Scientists : There is no Chickenosaurus!!!
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.
have you observed the bahavior of a dinosaur?
@@carlant_III you can get an idea by observing the behavior of modern day birds. They are dinosaurs after all
@@heyaytlgno3951 😭 beautiful satire
it's 2016... any updates? anyone?
The head is doing good
www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn-of-the-chickenosaurus-successful-reverse-evolution-results-in-chickens-with-dinosaur-snout-legs-and-feet/
Nosferatu It's 2017 and dinosaurs still exist in your imagination, much like men on the moon and North Korean despots.
2018 update?
You don't believe in men on the moon?
This guy is funny
Hey its 2018 the second Jurrasoc world is out and this has still not happened
Wonderfully humourous talk. Thanks.
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…
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."
Emre Geylani ancestor grandfather daddy what kind of dinosaur is that?🕶
Love this guy. He sounds like John Wayne!
the Duke had more hair!!
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 ...
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.
isnt george church dyslexic with adhd and narcolepsy? another awesome biologist
I prefer to eat chicken, not be eaten by one.
Fucking, Gold
Chicken lives matter. Make chicken great again.
Yeah but imagine how much more rewarding eating the chicken would be if it was a fight to the death and the chicken lost!
MrsRazor66 So no more Bearkiller or Tiger Hunter or crocodile wrestler but Chicken Eater?
They be like “mmmhhmm, humans tastes like chickens.”
Can we make the chicken glow anyways since we are doing mass modification of it's genes
@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.
This guy is pretty awesome and this was very interesting.
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
We aren't that far from having "dino-chickens" already. Look up "Shamo chickens" here on TH-cam. 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.
Imagine the next Jurrasic park movie about chickens 🐔 and C-Rex
We have created a more dinosaur like leg on a chicken. 2016 update. We are also getting closer to a tail...
The Dinosaur Creator CENA!! 2018 updates?
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.
The Dinosaur Creator CENA!! Please send link
@@davidkelly4210 yes, the teeth will be hard. lol. but birds do get an egg tooth... i wonder if that is a real tooth
its been 8 years wheres my chickenosaurus
11 years later and I'm still waiting for my chickenosaurus
You make me so emotion sir, Even I want dinosaurs to come back...
wow!, I didn't know cells could get fossilized !
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.
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
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!
please tell me there is a ingen funding this
just hope that it's not Biosyn
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
Back in the 60s I read The Enormous Egg
, by Oliver Butterworth. It's precisely "getting a dinosaur from a chicken".
Life should not be manipulated for entertainment or for market. This is some real sick stuff!
Agree
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.
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
Jurassic Park and World: Making dinosaurs is dangerous!!!
Paleontologists: Did we hear something?
Same happened with chihuahua.
If this is accurate KFC should change their name to KFR Kentucky Fried Rex.
but rex just means king
You could feed a whole village with one bucket!! :D
In asia that's dog.
@@PeterWalkerHP16c Do you mean they Wok their dogs? :D
Fried Chicken Tails and Hands
Birds are specific type of theropod dinosaurs called Maniraptoran dinosaurs
There's a saying that we should never show our plans to anyone or our plans would fail. This is the proof of that. Everything he said is very possible but it doesn't come to fruition because what should be a top secret, he spill to the public
i wanna see feathered trex in the nxt Jurassic movie
Doubt it will happen unless it's very short and fine hairs like on an elephant. But we can always dream.
Depends on what they're gonna do with it. The latest movie said they don't look like the real thing because the boss of the park wants to have them portrayed in way where people would recognize them. Which, to anyone not interested beyond seeing the movies (=same as visiting the park just because it's cool, even if you don't particularly care about dinos), are still lizards. In the third movie there were already some hints of feathers. The problem is, even scientists aren't too sure how they looked like, aside from a few rare species here and there. Especially bigger ones like the T-rex or even the Velociraptors. It's just safer to keep them scaley and explain why, that portray them with feathers and a few years later find the depiction didn't make any sense in nature.
It makes senses to keep some form of scales on the larger dinosaurs which didn't need insulating. Much like modern day elephants which have a thick skin and sparse hair.
At least Jurassic Park moved away from the lumbering, dim witted reptile image of dinosaurs in favour of avian behaviour.
no, please, Jurassic Park's dinosaurs were always supposed to look cool, not scientifically accurate
Lost Dog bro feathered raptors look cool idk what you are talking about
#FixTheChicken
Dr. Mary Schweitzer is fuckin awesome.
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!
Glo-Chicken will get lots of funding from FOX.
I would really like to see what a chickenosaurus looks like
Reverting to an older version is always easier than updating one.
Unless it's called Vista. :P
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.
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.
chickens are dinosaurs of today
All birds are cos they evolved from a specific dinosaur family group
2019 where’s this thing at
I dOn'T KNow..... :(
One of the best Ted Talks I'v seen. Very cool......
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?
Even though I don't believe in evolution, I found this to be fascinating. I hope that this actually gets proven because I agree with this completely.
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
Are they still working on this???? Have they done any hatching at all yet?? I need to know!
chickeno-saurus hatched,,now his first birthday is at 1-02-2020
been watching you find dinosaurs all my life brother......thanks
Anyone who has ever seen a cassowary needs no convincing that birds are dinosaurs.
I love this talk. Fun and informative!
Fantastic TED Talk!
"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..."
They are cool. Birds of prey are dope, some parrots have near perfect mimicry abilities, and cassowaries are essentially just avian non-avian dinosaurs.
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!!!
I love how he's totally open and vulnerable about his dyslexia in front of a room full of academics
They are mere children compared to what he has accomplished in his field. His reputation is his "armor"!
That's awesome... both the talk, and the ideas.
Its all fun and games until the Velocirchicken eats your neighbor's dog.
if birds had examples of recessive genes I'd say maybe you could get there as their short life cycle would make it easy to isolate such a genetic expression, I'm sure if that was the case there would be lots of pictures everywhere of such examples....
Best use of silence ever after a statement! Rimmer would be proud.
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!