Paleontologist Jack Horner, who was also technical advisor for the Jurassic Park trilogy, has claimed that he can create a chicken dinosaur or chickenosaurus through genetic manipulation. But he will need $1 million to splice the genes of a chicken and dinosaur to create the new species.

Horner described the chickenosaurus to News.com.au as a chicken with a tail.

Private donors fund Horner's dinosaur research the past 30 years and they include film producer George Lucas and Universal Studios. He may find other Hollywood donors for the chickenosaurus experiment.

Among Horner's significant findings from his studies were that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, reared their young, colorful, feathered and had peculiar behaviors.

Horner also continues to be on the lookout for dinosaur fossils.

"We find a dinosaur, a new species of dinosaur, on average every seven weeks. I think recently it's been probably like every five weeks. I found one last week," he said, according to News.com.au.

The idea of Horner, who is currently working on the fourth sequel of the Steven Speilberg dinosaur click, is the same as that of Canadian paleontology professor Hans Larsson, who is among scientists who believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Larsson actually announced as early as 2009 that he planned to manipulate a chicken's embryo to reproduce the dinosaur anatomy just to prove the dinosaur-to-bird evolutionary theory.

"If I can demonstrate clearly that the potential for dinosaur anatomical development exists in birds, then it again proves that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs," Larsson said in a Telegraph report in August 2009.

It was Horner who inspired Larsson to do the experiment after the former came up with a book entitled "How to build a dinosaur."