Tastes like chicken, but it's fifty feet tall, runs forty five mph and has lots of teeth

[Fumesucker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402025.html?nav=rss_nation


Protein retrieved from a 68 millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizards', strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs.

The new work builds on a 2007 analysis showing remarkably close similarities between T. rex collagen and collagen from modern-day chickens, but that work did not include comparisons to other living species. Collagen is the primary protein in bones.

"We had made a very loose connection at first," said John M. Asara of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who led both studies. "Now we're able to make out robust evolutionary relationships and, with very high confidence, basically group the T. rex dinosaur with birds."

[Mountainman]

1. Hell, why not just check the writings of the early Christians that lived at the same time?

[Subdivisions]

5. LOL! n/t

[Bake]

2. Mmmmmm .... tastes like chicken!

Down South we'd roll it in corn meal and fry that sucker UP!!

Bake

[Fumesucker]

3. Just think of the Bucket-O-Chicken

You could get at KFC!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. You mean PFD. (Pangea Fried Dinosaur) -nt

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

12. We could make buffalo wings if we had a fork lift!

[Bake]

13. I want a leg! I want a leg!

Mama, of course, gets the neck bone.

:rofl:

Bake

[GaYellowDawg]

16. You mean "buffalo arms"

With those stubby little arms, I think one person could lift an arm rather than a forklift... but it'd sure make a family meal!!

[damntexdem]

14. CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK!!!!!

No 'over easy' with the eggs, either.

[Javaman]

4. Soylent green is T.Rex!!!! nt

[Richard Steele]

6. Let's divide the work- I'll start the fire while you catch it.

Interesting news. Pretty amazing that those simple proteins managed
to survive intact for 68 million years, isn't it?

[Fumesucker]

7. OK... No problem

I'll lure it off a cliff..

You stand out in a lightning storm on a pile of dry wood with a rod in your hand..

It's beyond amazing.

And to think, it's only been around 300 years since Leeuwenhoek first saw "animicules" in a drop of water.

Before that we were totally ignorant of the microscopic world.

[Richard Steele]

22. Even on those terms, I'll stick with "making the fire"!

Neither I nor my beloved Honda Scooter can run faster than a T-Rex.

I'll take my chances with the lightning- people occasionally SURVIVE that!

[YOY]

8. Sauropod! The other white meat!

n/t

[Fumesucker]

10. LOL..

That was good..

[damntexdem]

15. Theropod?

Or did you want to try cerotops?

[Octafish]

25. Brontosaurus Pot Pie.

Yummm. Cough.

[frogcycle]

9. let me get this straight...

frog's legs, rattlesnake, and all those other exotic foods don't taste like chicken after all? They taste like T-rex?

Do we have to say "mmmm... tastes like T-rex" every time we dig into a bucket of KFC now?

[kineneb]

17. Henrietta says "I told you so"

Henrietta the pet chicken has "dinosaur feet"...and all those feathers, just advanced scales...

check out these guys...Aseel chickens...



then imagine them 50' tall...

[Fumesucker]

19. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase..

"Henpecked" ..

[SQ_20903]

18. WOW

amazing

[newmajority]

20. You would have to have one mother of a rotisserie

to roast that son of a bitch!

[MilesColtrane]

21. Rex-Fil-A?

"Eat Mor Chikun" before they evolve into something that will eat your family.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Asimov was right! :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father

The two men decide to raise the dinosaurs to be killed for food and open the first of a successful chain of restaurants dedicated to serving "dinachicken".

[Fumesucker]

24. Asimov was right about a great many things..

In the story _Hostess_, he predicted the internet.. In 1951..

It was a throwaway line too.. One or two sentences..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_(short_story)

[eppur_se_muova]

27. The idea behind "Currents of Space" has apparently been proposed as a serious theory.

I only heard this on the radio (NPR) and can't find anything with The Google. Unfortunately, words like "Nova" and "Supernova" tend to get lots of hits where that represents a brand name ...

[LeftyMom]

26. They were quite probably feathered, too.

There's evidence that their ancestors had feathers, as did their cousins, the raptors, which appear to be the predecessors for birds.

[datasuspect]

28. jesus ran with the dinosaurs

and ate them with a zesty orange chipotle glaze