Posted on 04/25/2008 12:26:24 PM PDT by Jim W N
Protein analysis confirms modern birds descended from huge predatory dinosaur, study finds. In the first analysis of proteins extracted from dinosaur bones, scientists say they have established more firmly than ever that the closest living relatives of the mighty predator Tyrannosaurus rex are modern birds. The research, being published today in...
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alton brown did something like this on good eats. he took a skeletal model of a t rex and broke it down to where it resembled a chicken carcass. very interesting.
Things really have come full circle I guess...
I don’t know. The way my peacocks strut and screech, they seem more like T Rex.
I have spent time at chicken ranches.
It’s true.
You can see it in their eyes when they look at you.
The Flintstones enjoyed Colonel Sanders Southern Fried T. Rex.
Mmmm. (ten)yard bird. I prefer white meat. You can have the drumstick. Who wants to break the wishbone?
So there should be lots of fossil remains of all the (thousands?) of animals in between the two.
But does it taste like chicken? Imagine what KFC could do with Dino DNA.
We used to have a steakhouse here in town named 'The Chicken Ranch'. It was one of those infamous ones where the waitresses were nude. (not kidding)
Since they don’t really know what dinosaurs sounded like, it’d be funny if they ba-gawked instead of roared like in Jurassic Park.
like anybody under 45 is going to get that...
Yeah. My peacocks have always looked like dinosaurs too—scary. And right now my parrots are looking at me funny... I made the mistake of reading this article out loud... !
T-rex is without descendants. Birds are descended from other lines of dinosaurs. Thus there is no intermediate btwn T-Rex and KFC.
Where’s Chuck Berris when you need him
(snicker) Well but THIS is science don'cha know! ;-)
I hope they wore hair nets
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