Rex is a Big Chicken

Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

Just amazing. You can read the rest here. Proof of evolution.

www.reuters.com...

I heard this on the radio this morning... Of course, the theory that birds are descendents of dinosaurs has been around for a while. So, I wasn't really shocked when I heard this.

I swear I just broke something laughing! Seriously, this is just ridiculous!

The mighty T-Rex, now.............a bloody chicken.

I'd always wondered, but now I can say it without looking like a loon.

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Birds are supposed to have come from bipedal dinosaurs. As for pterodactyls and such, they were reptiles.

Ahhh.. you erased you'd eat your hat part..



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Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Ahhh.. you erased you'd eat your hat part..

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I did indeed, I've already promised to eat my hat in another thread and I only have the one hat.

Also, after reading the article a bit more, it does seem rather credible.

I guess we all know who won this race.

Maybe scientists should be working on a real Jurassic Park, I want dibs on a drumstick.

Which came first, the T-REX or the egg?

Why did the T-REX cross the road?

What are you McFly...a T-REX?

Kentucky Fried T-REX...it's pterodactyl licking good!

This is going to be fun!

M.Agenda!

so the stylized drawings of T-Rex with those scrawney arms coming out the chest part might be misplaced...
and a T-Rex with stubby extremities that would become feathered wings
is a more correct depiction....
the world was & is as strange as i imagined as a kid,
but was criticized for, and labeled a daydreamer in school...

let's see if there's a forthcoming change in the dinosaur icons we grew up with...

Just a quick question.

What would cause a T-Rex to have a need to have wings?
I always thought flightless birds evolved from birds of flight.

Originally posted by St Udio
so the stylized drawings of T-Rex with those scrawney arms coming out the chest part might be misplaced...

Nope. They're for real. I've stared at them in the museum.

This was a neat discovery, because we've known for a long time that T Rex bones and chicken/turkey bones are really very similar... hollow and light. Rex was a lot lighter than some of the similar-sized Saurischians she chased down.

Originally posted by Umbrax
Just a quick question.
What would cause a T-Rex to have a need to have wings?

IF it happened (it didn't), it would be a case of "convergent evolution." Nature tends to evolve and re-evolve the same structures (like saberteeth. There's been dozens of different species of "sabertoothed cats".)

I always thought flightless birds evolved from birds of flight.

They did!

hmmmmmm

Kentucky Fried T-Rex

LOL.............this makes me think of the movie trailer "meet the robinson's" where shows the end it shows the t-rex www.youtube.com...
but on a serious note.

its hard to compare a t-rex to a chicken, on the simple fact of the whole aviation build.....and..........well size.

but what do i know

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EDITED again: sorry

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