Greetings, first time I visited this part of the forum, but thought to come here, cuz I read something interesting. What I read was this -- http://www.businessinsider.com/the-paleontologist-who-worked-on-jurassic-world-is-trying-to-create-a-real-dinosaur-within-5-to-10-years-2015-6

To sum it up, some scientists are trying to reverse evolution and make a sort of raptor/dinosaur. Then they go on to say they could actually make unicorns, as long as they know the genetics around that. Wonder if we'll be seeing something similar to BeastKeeper, but IRL sooner or later.

I've once read (and saw a photo), that they had created a dinosaur from a chicken. They had basically only removed a gene, that appeared in the later evolution and created a bluish tiny raptor :D They had to open the egg early though, and so the creature did not live. They would have had problems with law or something...

The other day I watched Jurassic World and thought that if eventually they could make a Indomable Rex, or I. Rex, they could make mythical creatures reality,  like they could take, say, a aligator or crocodile, whichever is bigger, and put some genes of a giant bat in it to make a dragon.

As fascinated as I am by the knowledge and possibilities in this, I sincerely hope they don't set about just trying to make actual, living animals just like that.
It takes thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, of animals dying to ensure only the best genes make it to the next generation, so imagine the health issues on-a-whim created animals would be faced with.

I think the issue would be less of a "the animal is going to eat us" and more of a "will the animal be able to eat at all."

Even in the chicken mentioned in the article. Surpressing one gene sounds simple enough, going back to a design that worked for perhaps millions of years sounds simple enough, but will the chicken be able to forage for and eat its usual diet with it?
Alternatively, will the chicken be able to digest and live off of what it can eat with its new beak?

If I remember correctly, chickens, much like bulls, have a thing for the color red, where they'll flock to and peck/eat stuff with that color. (Though I've only heard of this, and never saw it.)