A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur. Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur. Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being acquired to recreate the prehistoric past. The key is the dinosaur's genetic code that lives on in modern birds- even chickens. From cutting-edge biology labs to field digs underneath the Montana sun, How to Build a Dinosaur explains and enlightens an awesome new science.

How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution

Science & Math

Gorman, James

Horner, Jack

Biological Sciences

Penguin Publishing Group

A scientific advisor for the film, Jurassic Park, evaluates the potential for artificially growing a real dinosaur without ancient DNA, in an account that traces his team's paleontology research to reveal the relationships between dinosaurs and birds and how it may be possible to stimulate latent tyrannosaurus rex genes in a chicken.

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

Dutton Adult

Dinosuars under the Big Sky describes the different species of dinosuars known to have lived in Montana and explains the scientific importance of their bones and skeletons. Photographs and hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings depict the dinosaur fossils that collectors are most likely to find under Montana's big sky.

Dinosaurs: Under the Big Sky

Mountain Pr

My own brand

Hurtig Publishers

In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs--or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store. In the 1980s, Horner began using CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. At North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has extracted fossil molecules--proteins that survived 68 million years--from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner. These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are kissing cousins. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within--starting by getting it to grow a tail and eventually prompting it to grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. All of this is happening without changing a single gene. This incredible research is leading to discoveries and applications so profound they're scary in the power they confer on humanity. How to Build a Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this scientific revolution.

Tantor Audio

In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs-or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.    In the 1980s, Horner began using CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. At North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has extracted fossil molecules-proteins that survived 68 million years-from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner. These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are kissing cousins. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within-starting by getting it to grow a tail and eventually prompting it to grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. All of this is happening without changing a single gene.    This incredible research is leading to discoveries and applications so profound they're scary in the power they confer on humanity. How to Build a Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this scientific revolution.

In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs---or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever, Library Edition

Tantor Media, Inc.

Back cover text:Year 2050. With over 12 billion people, the WorldGov lords over the planet with technological omniscience and keeps peace and order through dole outs to over half of the world population displaced by robots, automation, and AI. NeuRoads Corporation, the world's largest technology and telecommunications company, offers the ultimate privacy platform, Dreamscape, an extended reality world that lets subscribers live their dreams and fantasies away from WorldGov's watchful eyes. Yet amidst the most advanced civilization, the human heart and mind remain stricken with lust for power, fame, and fortune.

Dreamscape: A Private World of Secrets, Scandals, and Schemes

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hill, William Scott

Fantasy

Capstone Publishing

The Shark Who Wanted a Shiny

Children's Books

Animals

Blue Dragon Publishing, LLC

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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

Dinosaurs: Under the Big Sky

My own brand

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever, Library Edition

Dreamscape: A Private World of Secrets, Scandals, and Schemes

The Shark Who Wanted a Shiny