The discovery of traces of flesh in a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus
rex bone ties the King of the Dinosaurs to modern-day species and,
scientists say, heralds a "milestone" shift in paleontology. "Based on
the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives
(to T. rex)," says geneticist John Asara of Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston, co-leader of a team reporting the discovery of
faint traces of chicken-like bone lining preserved inside a dinosaur
drumstick.

I sure wouldn't call him a chicken to his face.

probably tastes like chicken too

Yup, I bet so, too. A drumstick like that could last a long time.
It would take me a while to figure out how much barbecue sauce
that would take.

Did anybody think to get the Professor? I got this big chicken
problem.

MMMMM TASTE LIKE CHICKEN LOL

With a chicken that big we sure could throw one hell of a party.

Roy...I'd be sleeping with one eye open with all them roosters you got
scratching around. All you got between you and a good chicken/rooster
pecking is Moe. Cosidering recent events...I could see Moe turning a
blind eye....

most dinosaurs are supposed to be related to birds.

well ya know why t-rex was so mean don't ya

well do ya

huh

well

i guess i will just have to tell ya then

with those short arms t-rex could not masterbate proberly

and with looks like that no wonder they are extinct

Weird. And wrong. Unless we throw out every saurian extinction theory,
the theoretical evolution of birds, and all fossil evidence.


The t-rex was an evolutionarily dead end. It never moved to a new
species (that wasn't also destroyed). So it has no "relatives" in any
direct sence.

Of course, from a genetic sence, I suppose chickens coulda picked up a
few of the codes that once belonged to the 'rex. So "genetically
similar" is possible. But "related" is just a complete misnomer.



Incidentally, though- T-rex wasn't a predator. It was a scavenger. Its
brain case resembles the turkey buzzard- very heavy on the sence of
smell, poor on the vision and hearing. No predator is built like that.