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Surprise: Chickens Can Grow Teeth
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| 22 February 2006
| Bjorn Carey
Posted on 02/23/2006 6:41:48 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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Cool stuff!
Conical teeth in a Talpid mutant. Credit: Current Biology
Normal chick on the left, the talpid2 is on the right. The mutant jaw clearly shows teeth. Credit: John F. Fallon and Matthew P. Harris
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02/23/2006 6:43:02 AM PST
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GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
Exqueeze me...but pointy beak ridges are not teeth.
Where are the roots? The Enamel, etc...
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posted on
02/23/2006 6:44:30 AM PST
by
Paloma_55
(Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
To: GreenFreeper
Yeah, but I hear they're pretty scarce.
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posted on
02/23/2006 6:44:40 AM PST
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martin_fierro
(An Acquired Taste)
To: GreenFreeper
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02/23/2006 6:45:00 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: GreenFreeper
We can expect the Sci-fi soon; Day of The Talpid. Featuring flocks of man eating chickens and a crowd surrounded and trapped at the local KFC.
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02/23/2006 6:46:16 AM PST
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ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: theDentist
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02/23/2006 6:46:45 AM PST
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martin_fierro
(An Acquired Taste)
To: ARCADIA
To: PatrickHenry
The FR search really needs to be improved! Two separate title searches on teeth and chicken didn't result in anything of the sort. Oh well.
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02/23/2006 6:52:15 AM PST
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GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
O RLY??????
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02/23/2006 6:53:09 AM PST
by
M203M4
To: GreenFreeper
I'd like them to take a secretary bird ebyro, get it to grow teeth, than implant hoatzin bird genes to get it to grow wing claws and VOILA! Instant velociraptor!
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posted on
02/23/2006 6:54:31 AM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
To: GreenFreeper
>> Conical teeth in a Talpid mutant.
"Conical teeth," my Aunt Harriet's butt! My niece did that watercolor when she was 6. She said it was a bunny wabbit. We taped it to the refrigerator.
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posted on
02/23/2006 7:02:46 AM PST
by
T'wit
(C'est une folie a nulle autre seconde, / De vouloir se meler a corriger le monde. -- Moliere)
To: GreenFreeper
No one yet has mustered a reply that references hen's teeth?
Work with me, people!
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posted on
02/23/2006 7:03:54 AM PST
by
jra
To: GreenFreeper
That's Just a little weird!
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posted on
02/23/2006 7:04:42 AM PST
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Reaper FReeper
(sometimes I wonder what ADD is, but than I find myself chasing a butterfly.)
To: GreenFreeper
It's interesting, but what good are teeth if you eat nothing, but corn! I mean they never needed teeth before. Well I guess chickens need all the help they can get. they need to look like a Croc so they can swim to the nest and snatch up all the baby Crocs!!!! ARGGGGG.... I'm a little crazy.
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posted on
02/23/2006 7:14:40 AM PST
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Reaper FReeper
(sometimes I wonder what ADD is, but than I find myself chasing a butterfly.)
To: GreenFreeper
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posted on
02/23/2006 7:18:31 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Seeking the truth here folks.)
To: Reaper FReeper
I mean they never needed teeth before. Maybe the are arming up for a revolt against the human oppressors.
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02/23/2006 7:21:15 AM PST
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GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
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02/23/2006 7:27:00 AM PST
by
zakbrow
(I'm running out of places to bury the bodies.)
To: PeterPrinciple
so how did the gizzard develop? I do not know for certain how they developed but I know several herbivorous dinosaurs were thought to have rudimentary gizzards. The evolution of a gizzard eliminated the need for sharp teeth and thus were lost. Birds are thought to be descended from herb. dinos so this makes quite a bit of sense to me.
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02/23/2006 7:29:58 AM PST
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GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
But that doesn't answer the age-old question: "Do chickens have lips?"
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