How to build a dinosaur : extinction doesn't have to be forever /
Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs - without using prehistoric DNA. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds.
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Table of Contents:
- Hell Creek : time, space, and digging to the past
- It's a girl! : a pregnancy test for T. Rex
- Molecules are fossils, too : biological secrets in ancient bones
- Dinosaurs among us : chickens and other cousins of T. Rex
- Where babies come from : ancestors in the egg
- Wag the bird : the shrinking backbone
- Reverse evolution : experimenting with extinction
- Appendix. Chickenosaurus skeleton.