# Building a dinosaur from a chicken

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2011
- Speaker: Jack Horner
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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 — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".

## Lectures

1. [Building a dinosaur from a chicken](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken/ef6d2a79bf9d), 17 min (TED's player)