A tiny chicken-like dinosaur has been reconstructed using advanced laser imaging, revealing the physical features of the species that roamed the Earth 160 million years ago. Analysis showed the Late ...

Famed paleontologist Jack Horner has served as the dinosaur consultant on every Jurassic Park film. He talks about his genetic masterpiece and whether you can train Velociraptors. In Jurassic World, ...

Teams of scientists are working on plans to recreate dinosaurs by winding backwards evolution and picking out genes in modern animals that would also have existed millions of years ago. The scheme – ...

TEAMS of scientists are working on plans to recreate dinosaurs by winding evolution backwards and picking out genes in modern animals that would also have existed millions of years ago. The scheme - ...

Dr Horner, the inspiration for Sam Neill’s character in Jurassic Park and the technical advisor on all of three movies, is working on a project that would see dinosaur and chicken genes spliced ...

That fiction is unlikely ever to become fact because DNA simply is not tough enough to survive in that way. But reconstructing a dinosaur from genes passed down the evolutionary tree to modern birds ...

Jurassic World might be a monster hit with cinema-goers, but it would appear the franchise’s consultant palaeontologist hasn’t learnt from the films. Dr Jack Horner is developing dinosaur-traits for ...

Deep inside the dusty university store room, three scientists struggle to lift a huge fossilised bone. It is from the leg of a dinosaur. For many years, this chunky specimen has languished cryptically ...