[Centaur]

We've always said that the 2 month old chicks around the farm here look like mini-dinosaurs...Not scientific, I know...just an observation.

[johnny7]

Observe some herons, cranes... or cormorants. Not that wild a stretch.

[Socratic]

We've always said that the 2 month old chicks around the farm here look like mini-dinosaurs...

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny:

The theory claims that the development of the embryo of every species repeats the evolutionary development of that species fully. Or otherwise put: each successive stage in the development of an individual represents one of the adult forms that appeared in its evolutionary history. Haeckel formulated his theory as such: "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". This notion later became simply known as recapitulation. (From Wikipedia)

Although not an embryo, your observation of young chicks reminded me of this.

[Savage Beast]

Pelicans look like pterodactyls.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

We've always said that the 2 month old chicks around the farm here look like mini-dinosaurs...Not scientific, I know...just an observation.

Actually it's quite scientific. There's an old saying "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" which is a fancy way of saying that embryos tend to look like fish and that it's not an accident - that it happens for a reason :)