{"id":189027,"date":"2024-05-09T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tweaking-the-beak-retracing-the-birds-beak-to-its-dinosaur-origins-in-the-laboratory"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:28:22","slug":"tweaking-the-beak-retracing-the-birds-beak-to-its-dinosaur-origins-in-the-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tweaking-the-beak-retracing-the-birds-beak-to-its-dinosaur-origins-in-the-laboratory","title":{"rendered":"Tweaking the beak: Retracing the bird\u2019s beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tweaking-the-beak-retracing-the-birds-beak-to-its-dinosaur-origins-in-the-laboratory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2015 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New Haven, Conn. \u2014 Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks.<\/p>\n<p>Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird\u2019s skull features. The scientists replicated ancestral molecular development to transform chicken embryos in a laboratory into specimens with a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs such as <i>Velociraptor<\/i> and Archaeopteryx.<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t call them dino-chickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2015 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 New Haven, Conn. \u2014 Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189027","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}