Apparently chickens are "related" to the tyrannosaurus rex! c,mon..is this really true?

Question

i heard this recently, that they are related and chickens are sometimes even said to be the most "closely" related living animal to the tyrannosaurus rex

Answer 1

I've heard of things such as that. Bird and reptiles do have alot of scientific/genetic similarities, so it's not too surprising. I somehow doubt that they're the closest relative to a t-rex though..

Answer 2

All birds are equally related to Tyrannosaurus rex. Fossil evidence shows that the ancestor of T. rex had primitive feathers, and as far as we know, feathers only evolved once, in small predatory dinosaurs. It's these same dinosaurs that also split into the evolutionary line that lead to Velociraptors, Archaeopteryx and finally... chickens. This basically makes all birds extant dinosaurs, and as such, the closest relatives of extinct ones, like Tyrannosaurus rex.

Answer 3

i think it was in montana, paleontologists found a t-rex skeleton and were going to ship it to a museum across the country. however, the leg bone was too big to fit in the plane they were using, so the scientists had to saw it in half.



in the center of the bone were some remnants of bone marrow and scientists were able to use the bone marrow to test for the t rex's dna (the dna will "die" when exposed to air, but it was in the center of the bone for the past million years, so it stayed in tact)



when they tested the dna, they compared it to other animals on earth and it tunred out that chicken dna was the most similar.



have you ever seen a chicken claw? looks kind of scary and raptor-like!

Answer 4

It is true. In a technical sense. Remember, there is 63 million years between the two.



Chickens and T. Rex are as close as Humans are to the small 'rat' like creatures that were scurrying around during the Cretaceous.

Answer 5

I don't care what anyone says, I can pack away 7 buckets and I know I'm a lady. I can only have 6 buckets though when I eat 2 boxes of swiss cake rolls.

Answer 6

Yeah, its true. All birds are related to dinosaurs/descended from dinosaurs.

The third source is the one about t-rex and chickens

Answer 7

true true.cmon,we came from one celled bacteria so trex to chicken is no stretch.

Answer 8

NOOOOOOOOOO idea!



Sorry.

Answer 9

no way!