Friday, April 25, 2008

STUDY: Chicken among closest living relatives of T-Rex...WTF

Protein retrieved from a 68-millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizard protein, strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs.

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