Is it possible to recreate dinosaurs from chicken DNA?
- Dinosaurs have been extinct since 65 million years ago.
- There is no preserved dinosaur DNA, as DNA is a fragile molecule that degrades over time.
- Chicken DNA holds remnants from their dinosaur ancestors.
Chickens share a common ancestry with dinosaurs. It’s not breaking news: the idea of birds and dinosaurs being related has been around since at least 1869 when English biologist and Darwin’s friend Thomas Huxley found avian traits in the skull of a Megalosaurus and other dinosaur taxa that was known at the time.
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