Scientists Monkey With Evolution, Produce "Snouted Chicken"

[kidd25]

He wants to create...dinosa- Screw ethics and Jeff Goldblum! Let this man do his job damn it!

you know i think that what the nazi thought when they were experimenting.

I'm fairly certain the Nazis were thinking, "Hey, let's create a superior being that can replace all the people we hate and are in the process of torturing and killing!"

You're a little bit off there, mate.

ah nice to see someone being nice ^_^ but also then it goes to "does the end satisfy the means" or something along the lines. Also i wonder about those scientist that really believed that they were doing good.

 

[AmaterasuGrim]

This man is awesome although if he did manage it would anyone visit a theme park called jurassic park especially after how well it turned out in the movies =/

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

Mmm, as excited as I am at the idea of prehistoric species coming alive, there's quite a few issues. The animals could never live in the wild as they would distrupt the 'balanced' ecosystem (as balanced as it can be with humans constantly mucking with it).

The only reason I can see for this research is the sake of being able to do it. That's...
Possibley the new animals could be used to research diseases and random stuff, but that means you're breeding animals to experiment on. Depending on the experiments it has the potential to be ethically wrong.

I would prefer if they used this method to ressurect animals that we humans have caused to go extinct due to our own selfish needs. However... I'm not sure how they would do that...

Devolve a close reletive of say the Dodo till the animal they produce is a common ancestor, and prey that animal may in the rare event evolve down the route of the Dodo. Still the animal would never be able to live in a real ecosystem. It would forever be in captivity.

Will be interesting to unravel mysteries of evolution. But I don't want this to happen at the expense of a life of an innocent laboritory manipulated animal.

Wah, wah, wah. Those poor laboratory animals. Life is suffering, get over it. You can't make a velociraptor without hatching a few deformed eggs. A little cruelty is hardly an excuse to not do amazing things. If you don't like it then go become a Jain. They at least have the testicular fortitude to take the philosophy to its logical extreme.

 

[Ghengis John]

Abzhanov scanned signalling molecules in alligator and chick embryos and found that two of them -- known as sonic hedgehog and fibroblast growth factor 8 -- show up before the snout and beak form.

Wait a minute... What?!?

Also I second the ethics folks. Ethics smethics, I want dinosaurs ready by this time next year and I want Wayne knight on the first plane to the dinosaurs so that he can invraiably try to steal the dinosaur embryos and be killed for his misdeeds.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Clearly this is just a clever Skyrim marketing scheme for the Argonian race.

Well played, Bethesda. Well played.
[sub]Denial. It works wonders![/sub]

 

[Flauros]

I used to do the same thing with my Game Genie. Just keep lowering the numbers in the code youll get powerups youre not even supposed to have!

 

[KoalaKid]

I love it how most people here are against ethical scientific practices. As a scientist myself I would love for all of you to volunteer as test subjects, as I have many experiments I would like to run that require subjects as enlightened as you that understand how useless ethical practices are. by the way have you seen the movie The Human Centipede?

What kinds of experiments?

Horribly unethical ones that will answer some of life's BIG questions. For example if you train a dolphin to rape people what type of music will really set the mood. For to long have dolphins had to rape without the proper tunes to bone to because of these brainless moralists and their silly concern for "ethical practices" and "human-life"!

 

[Quaidis]

There was news of this sort of thing years ago. Even a television program about it. Not about the beak, perhaps, but about how they were genetically modifying chickens. They also learned how to turn on and off feathers to different parts of the body (like the legs) and add tail bones.

I do want to see a picture of the modified beak embryo.

 

[whycantibelinus]

Pics or it didn't happen. The idea is excellent but I'd really like to SEE it. Fucking ethics bullshit lies, KFC didn't worry about ethics when it made featherless chickens with larger muscle mass in order to make more money by selling them dead and fried. Why should science be worried about ethics to make an awesome dino-chicken?

 

[Strazdas]

The only reason I can see for this research is the sake of being able to do it. That's...
Possibley the new animals could be used to research diseases and random stuff, but that means you're breeding animals to experiment on. Depending on the experiments it has the potential to be ethically wrong.

we have been doing this with millions of animals for many decades. Ethics is a man made restriction caused by fear.

 

[scw55]

Mmm, as excited as I am at the idea of prehistoric species coming alive, there's quite a few issues. The animals could never live in the wild as they would distrupt the 'balanced' ecosystem (as balanced as it can be with humans constantly mucking with it).

The only reason I can see for this research is the sake of being able to do it. That's...
Possibley the new animals could be used to research diseases and random stuff, but that means you're breeding animals to experiment on. Depending on the experiments it has the potential to be ethically wrong.

I would prefer if they used this method to ressurect animals that we humans have caused to go extinct due to our own selfish needs. However... I'm not sure how they would do that...

Devolve a close reletive of say the Dodo till the animal they produce is a common ancestor, and prey that animal may in the rare event evolve down the route of the Dodo. Still the animal would never be able to live in a real ecosystem. It would forever be in captivity.

Will be interesting to unravel mysteries of evolution. But I don't want this to happen at the expense of a life of an innocent laboritory manipulated animal.

Wah, wah, wah. Those poor laboratory animals. Life is suffering, get over it. You can't make a velociraptor without hatching a few deformed eggs. A little cruelty is hardly an excuse to not do amazing things. If you don't like it then go become a Jain. They at least have the testicular fortitude to take the philosophy to its logical extreme.

I assume with you hypocritical philosophy on life, it's fine if your family gets brutally maimed because 'life is suffering'. I know life is shit and misreble. Doesn't mean we have to enforce it.

The only reason I can see for this research is the sake of being able to do it. That's...
Possibley the new animals could be used to research diseases and random stuff, but that means you're breeding animals to experiment on. Depending on the experiments it has the potential to be ethically wrong.

we have been doing this with millions of animals for many decades. Ethics is a man made restriction caused by fear.

It's a man made philosphy of if you treat animals selfishly it means you treat other human beings the same way. Humans are not different from animals. We are animals.
You can argue that the 'if X is done for many decades then it's fine'. A cereal rapist that commits crimes and is never caught, who does this over many decades, ends up being fine because so?

 

[little.09]

Does this mean we can make dinosaus? My inner child is squeeing with joy right now...

have you not seen Jurassic Park? it doesn't end well

 

[Aptspire]

Wait, sonic hedgehog?
They can't be talking about the blue rodent who runs a lot, so anyone know what they are talking about?

I don't see why they can't hatch them. What is ethically wrong with hatching something for science? How is it any worse than hatching something just to be killed and ate? Last time I checked, science is legal and murder is not. Then again, I don't think reptilian chicken strips will be as good as regular chicken strips.

Ninja'd again (that's a VERY peculiar name for a bone)
I hope to see me some RL dinosaurs someday

 

[Aptspire]

Does this mean we can make dinosaus? My inner child is squeeing with joy right now...

have you not seen Jurassic Park? it doesn't end well

Let's just not make too many carnivores

 

[Worgen]

He wants to create...dinosa- Screw ethics and Jeff Goldblum! Let this man do his job damn it!

you know i think that what the nazi thought when they were experimenting.

I'm fairly certain the Nazis were thinking, "Hey, let's create a superior being that can replace all the people we hate and are in the process of torturing and killing!"

You're a little bit off there, mate.

actually Im pretty sure the nazis were thinking "WHITER SKIN, BLUER EYES, BLONDER HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!"

everything sounds german if you type it in all caps

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Wait, why is one of the genes named sonic hedgehog?

How is killing the eggs "ethical" but letting them hatch not? And compared to what we do to chickens daily...

Why aren't there any pictures?

So many questions...

It is less ethical to reintroduce an extinct species into an ecosystem. This species could be poorly adapted to the current ecosystem and die out all over again or it could actually damage the ecosystem depending on predation.

But why MUST it be reintroduced in to an ecosystem?

It's still just a chicken, why not just keep it in a farm like area where it could be monitered?

 

[AdamG3691]

wait... chicken... dinosaur?

obviously this man wants monster hunter to be real... I approve

 

[Grospoliner]

Wait, why is one of the genes named sonic hedgehog?

How is killing the eggs "ethical" but letting them hatch not? And compared to what we do to chickens daily...

Why aren't there any pictures?

So many questions...

It is less ethical to reintroduce an extinct species into an ecosystem. This species could be poorly adapted to the current ecosystem and die out all over again or it could actually damage the ecosystem depending on predation.

But why MUST it be reintroduced in to an ecosystem?

It's still just a chicken, why not just keep it in a farm like area where it could be monitered?

It could still escape. Or accidentally be released.