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 Stories About: biodiversity AND funnies AND wildlife
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Tastes like chicken
T. Rex with feathers |
biodiversivist |
13 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Yahoo News puts it this way: Based on the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives (to T. rex),' says geneticist John Asara of Beth 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. Science says it this way: To address this latter possibility, we generated aligned sequences obtained from chicken collagen 1t1 (the most closel ... |
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