From this month’s Discover magazine, article here. Basically, they’ve proposed reactivating the dormant genes in birds to restore reptilian traits such as teeth, forelimbs and long tails.
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I wonder if dinosaur tastes good.
I bet it tastes like chicken. 
Neat! Reminds me of that children’s book where a chicken lays a dinosaur egg.
I think, given their relative ages, with seniority and all, it’s more appropriate to say that chicken tastes just like dinosaur.
And I love this idea. Soon we’ll have savage, killer chicken running across the prairies, feasting on any small children foolish enough to stray from the nature trails in our parks.
Looks like chicken-catching is going to become a hazardous profession.
Move over, coal miners.
[Kent Brockman] I for one welcome our new paleo-poultry overlords! [/KB]
Somebody was going to do it sooner or later anyway…
[Dr. Ian Malcom]Nature finds a way! There there will be screaming and running and Jurassic Park 4![/DIM]
Wait, what happened to the four-legged chickens? I think we should just stick with that, I can’t see Buffalo Chicken Tails or Chicken Arms being big sellers.
What, chickens aren’t dangerous enough already?!
As a fan of “because we can” genetic tinkering, I heartily approve.
Mmmmm… KFD.
We’re gonna need a bigger bucket.
Holy cow, I loved that book, and I had completely forgotten about it until just this minute. What was it called again?
I read the article and didn’t quite understand why this was of any significance.
I mean, they weren’t saying the resulting mutant would in any way be a dinosaur, just that they could mess with genetic switches and have them express some reptilian features.
Struck me as a far cry from actually “turning back the evolution clock” as they seemed to initially suggest.
What they actually discussed didn’t seem all that far removed from having flies sprout eyes and legs in inconvenient places - not exactly news.
Every modern day species has huge chunks of genetic material that it shares with other species.
I just didn’t see how the creation of “dinochickens” was any different than any experiment turning markers on or off to create “monsters”.
In future, Chicken tastes you.
The difference is that the “monsters” they intend to create will be very similar to real, albeit extinct, animals, not mutant freaks with legs for eyes, etc. The implication being that if they can, by tweaking genetic switches, re-create an extinct animal, that further adds weight to the ideas a) that a significant component of evolution involves the tweaking of these genetic switches during development, and b) that birds did indeed evolve from theropod dinosaurs, and remain very much actual, non-extinct dinosaurs (and reptiles!).
That, and they’re hoping for some medical breakthroughs along the way.
As an added bonus, it will give the IDers something upon which to test their myriad theories 
Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man… woman inherits the earth.
We need to crosspost this to the ‘The most prescient words ever uttered in film or fiction’ thread.
I’ll illustrate the potential dinochicken…check back in a couple hours!