LARRY NIVEN

A controversial palaeontologist thinks we might have all the DNA necessary to recreate dinosaurs - in chickens.

Scientists managed to tweak poultry DNA to grow alligator-like teeth and a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak. The creatures would not be recreations of a once-extinct species...

The reason for the popularity of dinosaurs is that their symbolism is flexible enough to accommodate a vast range of meanings.

• Dinosaurs became extinct, and that story resonates with the apocalyptic traditions of the Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic religions.
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Fossils reveal that some of the more advanced dinosaurs had feathers or featherlike body covering.

• Archaeopteryx was considered the first bird but probably couldn't fly far.
• Pterosaurs - extinct flying reptiles - were not dinosaurs although ...