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Jurassic World 'scientifically more plausible' than predecessors

The fourth instalment of the Jurassic Park series is 鈥渟cientifically more plausible鈥 than its predecessors because it deals with genetic engineering rather than the retrieval of dinosaur DNA, says a palaeontologist who has acted as technical adviser on all four films.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 have dinosaur DNA but we can make transgenic animals,鈥 said Montana State University鈥檚 Dr Jack Horner.

鈥淭he cool thing about making a hybrid is that we can take a whole bunch of genes from other animals and mix them together to make a new animal, which is actually more plausible than bringing them back.鈥

Dr Horner is currently attempting to recreate a small 鈥渄inosaur鈥 by genetically reverse-engineering a chicken.

Jurassic World is set 22 years after the original film on a dinosaur theme park island.

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