Chickenosaurus - Jack Horner's secret dream

This is the closest I could get to the speculative look of a Chickenosaurus, the possible result of the most ambitious project of retro-engineering currently in development.
The project's aim is to produce artificial atavic features in chicken embryos, that will therefore show ancestral traits such as a non avian snout, teeth, functional claws on at least the two fingers of the wing and a long tail. With a little bit of luck, we will possibly be able to see one of these in our lifetime.

What about the worst possible scenario of this creation? Take a look: markm98.deviantart.com/art/Wor…

Drawing made as self-made illustation for my Maturity exam thesis, "De-evolution: rewinding the tape of life"
More info about the project: 
www.livescience.com/50886-scie…
www.inquisitr.com/2883336/dawn…
news.nationalgeographic.com/20…
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scien…
www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_…


Muscioni Marco, 2017
Graphite on paper


Special thanks to John "Jack" Horner, credit to his book "How to build a dinosaur" www.amazon.com/How-Build-Dinos…


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