T. Rex Protein Analysis Supports Dinosaur-Bird Link

LanMan04 writes "For the first time, researchers have read the biological signature of a Tyrannosaur — a signature that confirms the increasingly accepted view that modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Analyzing the organic material (collagen protein) found inside the unique fossil linked the collagen to several extant species. The bottom line is that the T. rex's biological signature was most like a bird's, at least based on the first fragmentary data. "It looks like chicken may be the closest among all species that are present in today's databases for proteins and genomes," one of the scientists interviewed said."

That makes sense

[bonefry]

Now I know why ... everything tastes like chicken

Dinosaurs!

[Anonymous Coward]

Birds: Not da mama!

Scientists: Yes, they were.

T-Rex the other white meat

[Goalie_Ca]

Does it taste like chicken? MMMmmmm T-Rex Wings.

An interesting resolution...

[Garridan]

Interesting resolution to an old debate:

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? T-Rex!

Here comes the rooster

[StikyPad]

I've always thought roosters had that look in their eye.. you know.... like they'd eat you in a second, if they could.

Since "tastes like chicken" has been done...

[russotto]

I'd just like to say "How the mighty have fallen".

Of course it's like chicken...

[TomSawyer]

How would the machines know what a T-Rex's DNA was like.

Re:Speaking of Jurassic Park...

[14erCleaner]

Well, given that chickens are identified as the closest living relatives, it appears that the Flintstones eating barbecued dinos weren't all that far "out there" either.

Re:Here comes the rooster

[stefanlasiewski]

Funny. I bet he thinks the same thing about you. I bet he's telling his rooster friends on Sqwackdot right now!

ObHicks

[Chris Burke]

"Dinosaur fossils? God put those there to test our faith."

"I think God put you here to test my faith, Dude."

Re:T-Rex the other white meat

[miskatonic alumnus]

In original or extra crispy, only from KFT.

Please forgive me

[truckaxle]

I, for one, welcome our new edible and delicious overloads (hmmm extra crispy or original recipe ....)

I sense a great disturbance in the Force

[Anonymous Coward]

As if a hundred million anti-evolutionists screamed in terror and then were suddenly silenced by scientific proof.

Re:Since "tastes like chicken" has been done...

[Tackhead]

> I'd just like to say "How the mighty have fallen".

I'll give it a try.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two former drumsticks, turn'd to stone,
Stand in Wyoming. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And razor teeth and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those proteins read
Which yet survive, stamp'd in this lifeless thing,
The hand that mock'd them and the mouth that fed.
And in the fossil rock these words appear:
"My name is Tyrannosaur, Chicken King"
Look on my works, ye primates, and cluck!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal Rex, asteroid-fuck'd,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- With apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley. I think it's still a sonnet.

in other news, foxes running from henhouses...

[swschrad]

as giant 40-foot toothed chickens chase them across the countryside. protests in England have already begun to protect the foxes.

breeding farmer Clancy Hogtrough said, "Hail, all I wanted to do was slow down those three-legged chickens of mine. Never found out if they were tasty, cause we could never catch 'em."

we hope to re-establish our satellite link shortly for our live report from Cuddles Fernbreath....

Re:Here comes the rooster

[d3m0nCr4t]

>. news for chickens. Stuff that matters.

Tyro Rex Supersaur (seasonal)

[rewinn]

"From "Tyro Rex Supersaur"

VOICE OF GORGOS
Every time we excavate it bothers your friends
That you'd let the mammals be the cause of your end
Was it something special that we can't comprehend?
Why could you not stick around until the Age of Men?
If you came today you could have eaten whole nations
The Mesozoic era had no overpopulation
Don't you get me wrong - I only want to know.

CHOIR
Tyro Rex, Tyro Rex
Are you the best that Nature selects?
Tyro Rex, Supersaur
Why is it that you exist no more?

VOICE OF GORGOS
Tell me your opinion of the great carnivores
Who'd you think could ever rival King of the Saurs?
Sabertooth was mighty tough the stories do tell
But Tyro you were greatest and you knew that very well
Could you know of Barnum Brown who'd be first to find you?
Did you think Roy Chapman Andrews
Would today enshrine you?
Don't you get me wrong - I only want to know.

CHOIR
Tyro Rex, Tyro Rex
Are you the best that Nature selects?
Tyro Rex, Supersaur
Why is it that you exist no more?"

FULL LIBRETTO: Tyro Rex Supersaur [rewinn.com]

Re:blue front amazon parrots

[gyrogeerloose]

Yeah, same here. We have an yellow-headed Amazon and I've been convinced that if he's not a direct descendant of a dinosaur, he must be channeling one. It's an interesting coincidence that parrots are one of the earliest of modern birds to show up in fossil records.

Re:That makes sense

[illegalcortex]

I think the appropriate phrase should be "Tests like chicken."

Re:That makes sense

[alex4u2nv]

The results of bad karma!

1: be powerful eat everything.
2: everything eats you.

Re:Speaking of Jurassic Park...

[deboli]

"...The curious thing that birds, dinosaurs and mammals all have in common is the placement of the legs underneath the body..."

There were animals with legs on the back of their bodies but they found themselves extinct shortly after

Re:Did Someon Call the Skeptic?

[dutchd00d]

"Anyone who expresses such doubts is immediately branded some sort of Christian right wing nut."

No, that only happens when you do it on an internet forum. Allow me to demonstrate:

You're a Christian right wing nut.

Re:That makes sense

[richlv]

and i have another chance to note that "vista" in latvian means chicken/hen.
you are free to draw your own conclusions regarding succession of t-rex and some companies ;)