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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“Protein analysis confirms...”
According to the article I read yesterday, this same analysis gave some flawed results as well, showing one reptile had more in common with mammals than other reptiles, an admitted bad result. There is absoloutely no proof this is accurate.
I worked many years on a chicken farm in South Jersey growing up. Chickens are cannibals. When we slaughtered and cleaned chickens for the freezer we threw the entrails in the coop. Looked like night of the living hen in there.
Would it suffice if fossils of a species of T-rex midgets are found?
Besides, the article does not say that chickens descended from T-rex’s; it merely states that they are related.
No, but some of T Rex's chicken-brain relatives will soon add it to the curriculum in elementary school, or maybe college...
Imagine that, we could replicate them and solve the World’s hunger crisis. Only problem is, what to feed them.....
The Gummint has already bought 120 million doses of Tamiflu anti-virus medicine at a mere $7.4 Billion of our tax money. All the pols at every level have got the medicine already to be used if they get the flu symptoms. Have you? It's more than probable that you will not get it. Our State Legislature voted against buying the product, but none of them turned down the freebie medicine.
`You can see it in their eyes...’
Yes, they have beady eyes.
I don’t trust them either.
One hell of a drumstick...
LOL night of the living hen indeed!!! We had 7000 layers ato one time and you wouldn’t want to pass out an be bleeding in the laying house lol.
Quint cut his teeth catching chickens before he got scared and moved to shark.
Sometimes that Chicken he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a Chicken... he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living... until he pecks ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’
Some time ago there was a proposal to name a certain dinosaur, known from fossils, as Maryland’s official state dinosaur. The trouble was, the state already had an official dinosaur—the Baltimore oriole.
Phororachos supposedly 12 feet tall but 9 feet tall when reconstructed. Still a big one.
"I have no food on me..."
Looks like a bird to me. :::shrug:::
T-Rex vs. Colonel Sanders! Smackdown Raw!
Oh great. Thanks! Now I'll be creeped-out when I visit my in-laws' farm.
The farm where I worked had about 42 thousand hens. My boss told me if I got hurt in there and couldn’t move the chickens would eventually attack me. A couple of times we had ice storms that knocked out the power and the feeder chain that ran through the coops was down. I would feed the chickens with a scoop from a 5 gallon bucket. They would fly at me and swarm me to get to the food. I had to boot a few to calm them down. Good thing their beaks are burnt flat!
Science has spoken! But somewhere inside my common sense says BS.
Your common sense and true science are on the same page. These pseudo-scientific whack-theories are not true science. 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.
Something tells me these proteins have a lot in common with a whole bunch of other proteins. I’m not ready to buy into the dinosaurs evolved into birds 400 million years ago story, either.
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