The News:
T. Rex tasted like chicken?
A protein found in the dinosaur's bones boosts the theory that birds are the closest descendants.
By Rick Weiss The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2008 03:42:23 AM MDT
WASHINGTON — 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 lizards', strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal Science.
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