{"id":154917,"date":"2023-01-08T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/dinosaur-legs-grown-on-genetically-modified-chicken-embryos-in-world-first"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T20:23:22","slug":"dinosaur-legs-grown-on-genetically-modified-chicken-embryos-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/dinosaur-legs-grown-on-genetically-modified-chicken-embryos-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Legs Grown On Genetically Modified Chicken Embryos In World First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dinosaur-legs-grown-on-genetically-modified-chicken-embryos-in-world-first2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs came to a dramatic close as a huge asteroid impact accelerated them on a path towards extinction. Not all of them died out, however; those that survived went on to become today\u2019s birds.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are still trying to carefully map out the anatomical changes that occurred between dinosaurs and birds during this time, and there\u2019s arguably no better way to do this than to engage in a little \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/12\/science\/reverse-engineering-birds-beaks-into-dinosaur-bones.html?_r=0\">reverse evolution<\/a>.\u201d With this in mind, a team of researchers has grown \u201cdinosaur legs\u201d in chicken embryos, as revealed in their study in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/evo.12882\/full\">Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, previous research manipulating chickens into \u201cbecoming\u201d dinosaurs has already taken place. Back in 2015, a study showcased that chickens that had been tweaked during embryonic development could grow a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/story\/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur\">dinosaur-like snout<\/a>. A year earlier, a more low-tech study demonstrated how a few strategically-placed weights could make a chicken <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/heres-a-chicken-wearing-a-prosthetic-tail-to-walk-like-1517456040\">walk along like a <em>Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-six million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs came to a dramatic close as a huge asteroid impact accelerated them on a path towards extinction. Not all of them died out, however; those that survived went on to become today\u2019s birds. Scientists are still trying to carefully map out the anatomical changes that occurred [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,385,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-evolution","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}