Real life Shape Shifters!

Discredited paleontologists(set straight by Jack Horner) were so eager to name new species that, with several species of dinosaur, they overlooked that they were actually re-classifying the exact same species depending on the stage in it's life. This is like if a scientist found a lion cub skeleton, adolescent lion skeleton, and an older lion skeleton of the same species and declared them three different species.

We've already posted about Jack Horner, one of the leaders in the Future of Cryptozoology. He's not waiting on creatures showing up, he's creating them. He's turning dormant ancestral genes back on again in chickens to approximate extinct dinosaurs. So, if dinosaurs have traits that come and go as they grow older, can any of these characteristics at a particular stage of life be tweaked to become a permanent feature? For example, paleontologists introduced us to both Triceratops and Torosaurus but Torosaurus turned out to be a more mature Triceratops specimen, the exact same species. Triceratops got to keep the name, Torosaurus is no more. How will scientists/bio-hackers "freeze" dormant ancestral genes at the time in their lives they think are the "coolest"? What if a scientist/bio-hacker wants a Triceratops to permanently have the features of a "Torosaurus". Will scientists find a way to freeze "Torosaurus" characteristics within a Triceratops, or any Triceratops life-stage for that matter? If you think any of this is crazy, always refer back to how many versions of the wolf "mad scientists" have been creating for centuries.

Watch the enlightening video below on how dinosaurs "shape-shift" throughout their lives.