I recommend reading Jack Horner's "How to build a Dinosaur", he talks about this sort of thing, namely that you can take an existing flightless bird, give it te

I recommend reading Jack Horner's "How to build a Dinosaur", he talks about this sort of thing, namely that you can take an existing flightless bird, give it teeth, a tail, and flip the arms around and you've basically got a dinosaur. The creepy part is people are actually messing around with chicken genes and can turn on things like "grow teeth" and "grow a tail". - http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken.html http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fro... You'd think the guy who was the dinosaur adviser for Jurassic Park would actually learn the lesson from the movie, so if we all get eaten to death by chickens, here's your guy.