Researchers Transform Bird’s Beak Into Dinosaur Bones; Is Lab Grown Dinosaur Possible?

By Kamal Nayan - 13 May '15 07:10AM
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Researchers have discovered a dinosaur like snout after recreating the bird evolution in the lab, according to a new study. Theory suggests that the ancestors of birds came from the ancient dinosaur times.

Researchers disrupted the entire beak development process of chicken and the disturbance permitted birds to grow snouts instead of beaks.

The bird lookalike dinosaurs in the ancient time were the meat eater with small brains and eyes and lots of teeth to eat their prey properly, the theory adds.

"Goal for me and my team is to find out how birds became birds, we are interested in the beaks of the birds which we call the insane sort of beak from the ancient times," said Bharat Anjan Bhullar, a member of the research team at the Yale University.

"In order to gain more research about these birds we are going through every reptile and animas that look like a bird" Bhullar added.

The study, in general showed that slight anatomical alteration can lead to major consequences.

According to some experts, the beak development is a slow process and can't be described through a single gene.

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