Back in 2009 Jack Horner said in a 60 Minutes interview that he wanted to make a “chickenosaurus” within 5 years (a chickenosaurus being a chicken which has been genetically manipulated to express dormant genes related to its ancestry as a dinosaur). Below is a link (also in the FOSSIL Project newsletter) to an article that gives an update on Horner’s dinochicken project:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/paleontologist-jack-horner-is-hard-at-work-trying-to-turn-a-chicken-into-a-dinosaur/ar-AA7v2jb

His book is very good, highly recommended.  In addition to the “chickenosaurus”, he also discusses evo-devo, Mary Schweitzer, who discovered collagen proteins and (perhaps) red blood cells in a 68-million year old T-rex, and Hans Larson, who is investigating ancestral genes in chicken embryos.