The reason for all this? The Canadian news magazine MacLeans last week featured a long story headlined “ The quest to build a dinosaur.” It imagines pet dinosaurs in its lede.
A chicken’s spawn with teeth and claws would be many things. Nothing that arises from such work will be a prehistoric anything, so why say it? Just because someone reminds one of somebody doesn’t make him or her that person. The silly phrase award goes to a story attributed to “News Staff” at the CTV service in Canada, declaring the vertebrate paleontologist will take the first step “ towards hatching live prehistoric animals.” Maybe the News Staff parked its brains outside the door labeled enter here to boost ratings by forsaking truth. At CanWest news service Ken Meaney writes a lot more soberly that the professor “is working to produce chicken embryos with dinosaur-like features within five years.” AFP declares flatly that the man plans to show he can create a dinosaur. At Popular Science‘s Stuart Fox tells of a McGill University professor with plans to reverse engineer a dinosaur from a chicken.
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