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Chickens are T. Rex's closest living kin
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 04/25/08 | John Noble Wilford

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chickens; freepun; trex
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To: Prokopton
So there should be lots of fossil remains of all the (thousands?) of animals in between the two.

Yes there are. good point!

21 posted on 04/25/2008 12:45:45 PM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: Jim 0216

BUT DID HE taste like chicken?......

22 posted on 04/25/2008 12:46:40 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Jim 0216

I thought Marc Bolen and T.Rex were a pretty good band and not chicken at all.


23 posted on 04/25/2008 12:46:46 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: Jim 0216

That maybe but it would be hard to grill dinosaur on the barbecue.


24 posted on 04/25/2008 12:47:20 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Slapshot68
That is a hilarious image. A T-Rex strutting and ba-gawking. LOL!

I used the rural colloquialism “Mad as a wet hen.” and my ex said “is a wet hen mad? How can you tell?”.

It is all in the sound of the ba-gawk! And yes, quite mad!

25 posted on 04/25/2008 12:49:55 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Dysart

Damn, beat me to it. I shudda been just a bit faster, but your’s was better. Excellent.

I was googling to get the correct spelling of Bolan.


26 posted on 04/25/2008 12:50:15 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: Jim 0216

27 posted on 04/25/2008 12:51:10 PM PDT by LRS
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To: Prokopton

Correct. The Theory (read Myth) of Evolution (the indoctrination of which is a rite of passage in public schools) has more holes in it than Swiss cheese whereas Intelligent Design is almost unassailable.


28 posted on 04/25/2008 12:53:15 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

So that’s what the song was about...

Well, you’re dirty and sweet

Clad in black, don’t look back,

You’re dirty and sweet, oh yeah

Well, you’re slim and you’re weak

You got the teeth of the hydra upon you

You’re dirty, sweet and you’re my girl

get it on, bang a gong, etc......


29 posted on 04/25/2008 12:53:26 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: garyhope

You’re on the right track. Just remember: Practice, dedication, and perseverance. You’ll be getting those images in first in no time.


30 posted on 04/25/2008 12:53:32 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: DBrow

grew up on a chicken ranch. if an egg is broken while being picked up and gets on a chicken the other hens will peck the chicken with egg on his face to death. Watch them or guineas kill a snake.


31 posted on 04/25/2008 12:53:33 PM PDT by lakeman
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Just wait until Skynet gets ahold of them.


32 posted on 04/25/2008 12:53:50 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Prokopton; Soliton; OB1kNOb
You mean, like this one?


33 posted on 04/25/2008 12:54:09 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: mnehrling

There’s an, um, adult recreational facility in Mercury NV by that name too.

No, I mean the feathers-and-chicken-poop-all-over kind with a brazillion birds running around.

Although the one you mentioned sounds more appealing. Closest I’ve got is Texas Loosey’s where the girls wear chaps and leather vests and frilly panties.


34 posted on 04/25/2008 12:54:55 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: steveo
I'm over 45 and I didn't get it. Looks like a big gong like a giant dinner bell for things like King Kong and giant chickens?
35 posted on 04/25/2008 12:56:09 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: DBrow
I have spent time at chicken ranches.

It’s true.

You can see it in their eyes when they look at you.

I don't think they meant "chicken ranch" Las Vegas-style.

36 posted on 04/25/2008 12:58:43 PM PDT by zipper ( Suicide voting is the quickest way to send the whole country to Hell.)
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To: Jim 0216

This puts a whole new twist on Rev. Wright’s comments


37 posted on 04/25/2008 12:59:41 PM PDT by zipper ( Suicide voting is the quickest way to send the whole country to Hell.)
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To: Jim 0216

T. Rexxxxx has come home to rooooossssttttt.


38 posted on 04/25/2008 1:00:54 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Jim 0216

INTREP


39 posted on 04/25/2008 1:01:36 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Jim 0216
Is anyone even asking the question as to how soft tissues and protiens managed to survive for 68 million years?

Excepert from a Fox News story on the same subject:
It seems some 68 million years ago, a teenage T. rex died and left behind a drumstick-shaped femur bone that today still contains intact soft tissue and the oldest preserved proteins discovered to date.

Though no genetic material was preserved, researchers were able to extract the proteins from the collagen tissues.

40 posted on 04/25/2008 1:02:27 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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