Na-na-boo-boo T. Rex is a chicken!

[version1955]

This is from a science newsletter I get:

T. Rex Tissue Shows They Are Related to Chickens
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)

Foghorn Leghorn would be proud. The cantankerous Looney Tunes rooster
and his brethren appear to be the closest living descendants of the
ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex that ruled the world of dinosaurs. That's the
conclusion of a team of researchers who analyzed a remarkable 68-million-year-old sample of T. rex tissue.

It began two years ago when paleontologist Mary H. Schweitzer and
colleagues at North Carolina State University announced they had found
bits of soft tissue inside a fossilized T. rex bone excavated from the Hell
Creek Formation of Montana.

Researchers wouldn't have known about the tissue except that they had to
break the massive bone to load it into a helicopter. Inside, they found
brownish oblong cells and translucent vessels so elastic they could
still be stretched like rubber bands. ... The new findings, to be reported
Friday in the journal Science, show that part of the tissue is collagen, the
fibrous protein forming the scaffolding that supports the minerals in
bone.

To read more:
http://tinyurl.com/2sn3xs

[gbarmranch]

I wonder how big a Sunday T-Rex (formally chicken) pot pie you could make with one of those

[wildcat180]

Hum, now that makes me wonder about these nasty roosters I have...

Maybe I should be nice and offer them some meat or something...so they don't try and eat me...