Fan: Jack Horner

[neonvincent]

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".

I'm a paleontologist by training, so of course I'm a fan of Jack Horner. If nothing else, his discoveries have made dinosaurs more interesting.