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Recently, scientists found some organic tissue/whatever in a t-rex fossil. They made some match-making tests with proteins and sutff, and they found that the closest match where chickens- you know, the ones we eat.


Is this awesome? Y/N
>> Anonymous
T-rexes must have been delicious.
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
URL plz. I want to be able to use the phrase "Tastes just like tyrannosaur" and have some actual facts, rather than rumour.
>> harrison ford
>Recently
ehhhhhhhhhhhhh
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

The article doesn't say, but the testing probably only included selected animals. Collagen matching for example would likely be closer to all other birds over amphibians. They probably only selected one animal from each major clade for comparisons.
>> Anonymous
DOES THIS MEAN WE CAN CLONE T-REX?

that would be fucking awesome
>> Anonymous
It means that we will soon be eating t-rexes at kfc.
>> Anonymous
Scientists must fucking love jurasic park.
>> Anonymous
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Dinosaur-Bird link strengthened, more evidence in favor of evolution, etc.

That's really all it amounts to. It's all good news, but aside from the fact that we have some T.rex plasma, it's nothing really revolutionary.
>> Anonymous
Oh fuck guys, you've got me wanting to eat some fucking dinosaur.
>> Anonymous
>>154739

Well, just go to Arby's or something. Pretty much every fast food place has dinosaur of some sort on their menu.
>> Anonymous
Kentucky Fried Dinosaur


Finger licking good.
>> Anonymous
Tyrannosaurs probably tasted more like ostriches, since they had red meat. At least that's what the scientists say.

>>154731
Sauce on the image plz? It's not been long since I read male tyrannosaurs may have had neck wattles.
>> Anonymous
>>154713

What he said
>> Anonymous
you know that when they dug up a mummified mammoth in the siberian permafrost, scientists couldn't transport it off the site, so instead of leaving it to be destroyed by the elements, they cooked and ate the meat isntead!
>> Anonymous
lol wut?
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>154953

cool. i wonder if tyrannosaurs propped themselves up like that when they slept. Their arms might have been too weak to be able to lift themselves off the ground
>> Anonymous
>>154945
Urban myth is myth. In actuality only one person has ever tasted the meat of a frozen mammoth, he couldn't swallow more than a few bites, and became very ill afterwards. Even mammoth meat frozen in permafrost is not THAT well preserved.
>> Anonymous
>>154937

Artist name is Todd Marshall. Here's his site:

http://www.marshalls-art.com/
>> Anonymous
/n/ T-rexs ARE NOT FUCKING CHICKENS!!!
>> Anonymous
>>154953
in b4 Winrar.
>> Anonymous Alt783 Unvrs5466 !!Si/RtJAzDuK
I was watching the recent History Channel special on the current theory on ecological evolution. They currently believe most of the world had a relative higher O2 to CO2 ratio then when humans evolved. Also there were more tropical jungles teeming with plant life for the larger herbavoires to feast on, therefore more herbavoire for the carnivoires to feast on.
>> Anonymous
>>154646
Here's a weird thing: when artists portray dinosaurs, they almost always colour the skin that gets left between the jaws (when they are closed) as pink. Yet in crocodiles which have the same kind of skin it's not pink, its the same colour as the rest of the crocodile. Why would that skin be pink in dinosaurs, if it's not pink in crocodiles?
>> Anonymous
>>155043
I think it has to do with misperception of the effects of albinoism in which any blood vessel or muscle makes the skin look pink. Sincne it is just skin the pink sould not be one solid color, but diffusing from blood vessels. If the skin has no vessels then the only pink should be where the skin meets the jawline. The other reason is the may be transposing a human trait of pink lips and mouth.
>> Anonymous
Chicken tastes like dinosaur?
>> Anonymous
>>154713
Cloning needs a mother to carry the cloned egg/whatever...
>> Anonymous
I like it
>> Anonymous
Chickens being descendants of T-rex is not new. I read about this years ago... The Rex went from a terrifying predator to the only animal on earth that doesn't die a natural death.
>> Anonymous
hi
>> Anonymous
>>155147

Well, technically chickens wouldn't be the direct descendants of T.rex specifically, as tyrannosauroidea as a whole went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous.

Chickens would be maniraptorans, which are the other big branch of Cretaceous coelurosaurs (and includes the ostrich mimic dinosaurs, 'raptors, and oviraptors).
>> Anonymous
>>155143
Like an OSTRICH FTW...t-rex eggs were probably even smaller than ostrich eggs. You can also put the genetic material from the t-rex into pretty much any ovum.
>> Anonymous
>>155198

About that. Why is they called oviraptor? Should they not be called aviraptors?
>> Parasite !0IWTTbo3jA
>>155721
ovi raptor : eeg stealer
IRC, the first they discovered was in a protoceratops nest or something.
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Hay Guys, I found this thing in the bushes few days ago, I took it home and keep him in a dog house. He seems to be pretty tame although would only eat meat and a lot of it, what should I do?
>> Anonymous
>>155198
>>'raptors'

Please, use the term "Dromaeosaurs."
A raptor can refer to a bird of prey, extinct or otherwise (which I'm sure you know.)
That, and it would be nice to have people using the actual term.
>> Anonymous
>>155734

The first one they discovered was in the middle of what they assumed was a Protoceratops nest, so they figured it was stealing the eggs. However, they later found that the nest that first Oviraptor was found on was its own nest, which it was protecting.

Still, since oviraptors are still considered carnivores for which small prey animals and eggs were a part of their diet, the name 'oviraptor' to describe that family of dinosaur has remained.

>>155823

I figure using the shorthand is better for the purpose of threads like this, so that people not as familiar with dinosaurs as us don't get bogged down in terminology.
>> Anonymous
>>154713
Sadly, no. The Tyrranosaurus DNA has long fallen apart.