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Chickens sprouted dino-like feathers when scientists messed with the Sonic Hedgehog gene
In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of simple tube-shaped proto-feathers that likely first emerged in the ...
Just because the researchers didn't make permanently dino-feathered chickens, it doesn't mean the study was a failure. Milinkovitch and his co-author Rory Cooper, now a research fellow at the ...
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