Geeks of Doom » Test http://www.geeksofdoom.com Stuff by geeks, about geeks, for geeks. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Geeks of Doom 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ webmaster@geeksofdoom.com (Geeks of Doom) webmaster@geeksofdoom.com (Geeks of Doom) Comics, Movies, Technology, Video Games, Books, Toys, Geeks, Geek, Television, TV, Music, Film 1440 http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2010/04/2010-04-27-geeksofdoomcast144.jpg Geeks of Doom http://www.geeksofdoom.com 144 144 Your weekly geek infusion The official podcast for all things Geek Comics, Movies, Technology, Video, Games, Books, Toys, Geeks Geeks of Doom Geeks of Doom webmaster@geeksofdoom.com no no Are We Closer To A Real Life ‘Jurassic Park’ Than We Think? http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/30/are-we-closer-to-a-real-life-jurassic-park-than-we-think/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/30/are-we-closer-to-a-real-life-jurassic-park-than-we-think/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:24:36 +0000 The Movie God BirdsDinosaursEvolutionHans LarssonJurassic Park http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=28338 Jurassic Park (I assume). The method to the madness of bringing living, breathing dinosaurs back to life in that movie, was to find prehistoric pieces of amber with bugs perfectly preserved inside and extract their blood -- assuming that they've fed on dinosaurs and contain their DNA. Though it's likely that scientists have attempted to try this, it's not something that many expect to actually work. Now comes word that a scientist in Canada has a whole new plan to possibly bring dinosaurs back to life.

Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at Montreal's McGill University, Hans Larsson, believes the fact that dinosaurs are ancestors of birds may just hold the key. He believes that while a chicken is its embryonic stages, he can literally go in and alter this, change that, and replicate what once was, hundreds of millions of years ago.

Larsson has been studying the evolution of birds for a decade now, and truly believes that in time, he could find a way to do the unthinkable: hatch a live prehistoric creature. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/30/are-we-closer-to-a-real-life-jurassic-park-than-we-think/feed/ 8