Scientists create chickens with dinosaur snouts

Birds have an amazing array of beaks, from the curved snout of a flamingo, to the delicate and deadly beak of an owl, to the rounder snout of the dino-chicken.

If you haven't heard of a dino-chicken before, don't feel bad. It was only recently created by scientists at Yale, Popular Science reports. 

In a study published in the journalEvolution, researchers manipulated chicken embryos so that they would grow with the snout of a Velociraptor.

“Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a ‘dino-chicken’ simply for the sake of it,” lead author Bhart-Anjan Bhullar said in a statement, thereby ensuring that the image of a dino-chicken would be permanently embedded in your brain.