Brad DeLong wrote: > > >Ronn Blankenship wrote: > >> > >> <<http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0205/21_chicken-ap.html>> > >> > >> Why do I foresee a whole new flock of rubber-chicken gags, > >> only this time with LIVE poultry? > >> > >> -- Ronn! :) > > > >I'd swear that looks like some kind of mutant dinosaur! Now all > >we need is some 1950's special effects, a bad script, worse > >acting and viola! instant B-movie! > > > > > >-- Matt > > It *is* a mutant dinosaur! Don't you know that birds are > dinosaurs--class Therapoda? (Actually, that's not quite true: as best > as I can tell, the paleontologists are waging a ferocious war over > whether birds are dinosaurs (i.e., birds a subcategory of dinosauria > or whatever) or whether dinosaurs are birds (i.e., dinosaurs a > subcategory of avis)... > > Brad DeLong
Yes, I've heard about the theory (which is getting more and more certain) that birds are descended from dinosaurs. Also that there have been some species that have returned to that stature as late as 10 million years ago. I was remarking on how closely that the chicken has kept the shape of 2-legged dinosaurs, and how it could "pass" for a dinosaur in a b-movie. I was thinking of one of those bad movies where a gila monster with some spines glued on it rampages around a toy-model town chases some actors with bad split-screen effects. -- Matt
