Scientist's Dino Findings Making Waves

November 15 2009 on CBS 60 Minutes:

Scientist Thinks a "Dino Chicken" Could Be Created in Five Years By Reversing Evolution

There is something about dinosaurs that captures the imagination - giant, mysterious animals that roamed the Earth for millions of years, now gone forever.

All they've left us are their fossils, the dried-out mineral remnants of the creatures they once were, with the organic material that gave them life long gone. Or so everyone always thought.

Until B. "Rex," a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus Rex, who was dug up and named by a paleontologist from Montana State University whose unorthodox approach to dinosaurs may be changing the whole dino ballgame.
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See also:

• Web extra: Dino Chicken (Video)
• Web Extra: Evo Devo (Video)

(via RichardDawkins.net)