Chicken is closest living relative to T-rex!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6548719.stm



I wish I as making it up. Awesome.

Tyrannosaurus Pecks?

"You don't laugh at a man for screaming at a chicken. They're prehistoric, for God's sake!"

Old news...read about it a year ago, I think...included all birds.


Went out and got a bucket of dino....

Yeah, but this is the first link to a specific bird, other than just all birds.

Not that it needs it, but this seems to be even more support for evolutionary theory...

:whistle:

red dwarf was close...

Having found organic dino-stuff, does this mean we can now clone Bonsai Dinos if we stick it to a chicken?

It's only a matter of time before Kentucky Fried Rex is built. Only problem is that the Koreans might get a bit confused about what's inside the bargain bucket.

Well, I guess we're getting the last laugh on old T-rex, aren't we?

Aw hell. How the mighty have fallen.

So does this mean that dinosaur tasted like chicken?

Well screw it! I'm giving up on my time machine now that the big question is answered!!

Imagine the drumsticks.

You'd need a big pot of buffalo sauce for those pterodactyl wings, eh?

"It's a giant chicken, I tell ya...a giant chicken!"

What's this?



[?=Answer]
A fossilized T-Rex McNugget
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no

So we finally have an answer: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Neither. T-rex came first!

Well, the amniotic egg came first....

I don't believe it. Why would a species which was king at the time suddenly evolve into something that is small, docile, and to be caught and eaten? What would the evolutionary benefits be to that? I know they are suppose to have survived an ice age and all, but you would have thought at some point, it would've stopped when they were large enough to hunt medium sized prey like deer or rabbits.

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Why not? Mammals after all has evolved from mere rodents at the time to humans, horses and whales.

I'm sure that T-Rex didn't turn into a chicken over 65 million years, but they probably share an ancestor... That's all.

An ateroid whacked the Yuccatan 65 million years ago, setting of a mass extinction.

It didn't EVOLVE into a chicken. A chicken and the t-rex evolved from the same thing. That's the big difference.

And guess who is still around in large numbers?

Just reiterating this phrasing. It's part of my job description.