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Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 13, 2007 9:31:58 GMT -5
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. In studies reported in the journal Science, Asara and colleagues conclude that seven traces of proteins detected in purified T. rex bone most closely match those reported in chickens, followed by frogs and newts. story
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Post by joedog on Apr 13, 2007 10:11:58 GMT -5
HA!! When my kids were younger and finicky eaters I would tell then chicken was Dino-Meat so they would eat it...... My 16 y/o just caught on that all sausage was not made with deer meat.
OK they are PETA's worst nightmare....
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Post by Jay on Apr 14, 2007 13:25:45 GMT -5
Hmmm, interesting They did say dinosaurs are ancestors of birds Hmmm, might eat me some "dino meat" for lunch
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