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Tyrannosaurus rex - Mmmm, tastes like Chicken!
on: April 13, 2007, 02:38:41 AM

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"The similarity to chicken is definitely what we would expect given the relationship between modern birds and dinosaurs," Schweitzer says. "From a paleo standpoint, sequence data really is the nail in the coffin that confirms the preservation of these tissues. This data will help us learn more about dinosaurs evolutionary relationships, about how preservation happens, and about how molecules degrade over time, which could also have some important medical implications for treating disease."
http://www.physorg.com/news95606831.html
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Re:Tyrannosaurus rex - Mmmm, tastes like Chicken!
Reply #1 on: April 13, 2007, 12:42:13 PM
Heh, Random, Id always imagined a dinasour as a being of a red-meat kinda deal.

Still, probably quite a high premium on dino-steaks anyway  8)
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Reply #2 on: April 13, 2007, 16:12:23 PM
If I remember rightly the small dinosaurs became birds so they would be the ones that tasted like chicken as they ate the same foods.

The big dinosaurs were pretty much wiped out when their food started dieing out after some strange event (probably a meteor strike blocking out the sun since there was a fern spike afterwards where only ferns covered the earth).  The bigger dinosaurs who ate other dinosaurs would prob have red meat tbh.

Id have thought the T-Rex would have been red meat, no idea about the herbivores and the small scampering ones would have been white meat since they became birds.


Amazing that organic material can survive that long.  6.8 millions years and they can still pull collagen from it.  Roll on Jurassic Park!
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Re:Tyrannosaurus rex - Mmmm, tastes like Chicken!
Reply #3 on: April 13, 2007, 16:42:10 PM
they say anything different tastes of chicken these days lol
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Tyrannosaurus rex - Mmmm, tastes like Chicken!
Reply #4 on: April 13, 2007, 21:58:34 PM
Kinda makes you wonder what well (humans) devolve into.
Probably something that winds up on a distant generations dinner table.
Karmas a bitch. :lol:
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Re:Tyrannosaurus rex - Mmmm, tastes like Chicken!
Reply #5 on: April 14, 2007, 14:00:05 PM
Surely the big guys like Trexs were red meat! :O
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