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Ted: Ted Ed: Building a Dinosaur From a Chicken

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Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits to make a "Chickenosaurus." [16:37]

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)