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
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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Exqueeze me...but pointy beak ridges are not teeth.
Where are the roots? The Enamel, etc...
Yeah, but I hear they're pretty scarce.
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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"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.
No one yet has mustered a reply that references hen's teeth?
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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.
so how did the gizzard develop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizzard
Interesting.
But that doesn't answer the age-old question: "Do chickens have lips?"
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but, well, you know, when
the title of a thread says
"chicken" someone must
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Evo's expect us to believe this is the way "evolution" worked ... or "works".
Yea. I get it now.
This is not a complete surprise in that it was already announced 8-10 years ago that turning on certain dormant genes in chicken embryos could cause teeth to form inside an egg.
That birds carry the genetic potential for teeth does not imply that they evolved from reptiles or any other creature except other birds that may or may not have had teeth.
In fact the article demonstrates that rather than a mutation occurring that suddenly tells chickens how to grow teeth, the genetic potential for teeth has been there all along and can be stimulated just by introducing the right chemical signals.
All this shows is that most creatures have more built in adaptability and variation in their genetic potential than we would normally assume.
Better chicken with teeth than Cows With Guns!