[NormsRevenge]

On the Net:

Science: http://www.sciencemag.org

[Rokke]

OK, all evolution/creation debating aside...these “scientists” used their unlimited resources of brain power and technology and determined the T-Rex is related to either a chicken, a newt or a frog?!!? Or maybe a dung beetle...or perhaps a bison...or maybe a leach. Please tell me my tax dollars had no part in this.

[garylmoore]

68 million-year-old huh? How can that be when their process of telling the age of something is so acurate that tested on a live elephant to be 3000 years old?

[endthematrix]

"Previously, the bird-dinosaur relationship was based on similarities in the shape of bones"

...and the fact some fossils have feathers.

[I see my hands]

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Is it then mammalian revenge then driving my satisfaction with a spicy-chicken sandwich? Well, pile on the jalapenos for my relatives!

[goldstategop]

T. Rexes and other raptors were the forerunners of birds. That means two things: they were warm-blooded, displayed bird-like behavior and certainly wouldn't make the mistake of assuming their ancestors had anything in common with reptibles which are NOT dinosaurs. So you can still see dinosaurs on earth today. They fly.

[Iscool]

Matt Lamanna, a curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, called the finding "another piece in the puzzle that shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that dinosaurs are related to birds." Lamanna was not part of the research team.

Well, they did have the same Creator...

[Eclectica]

Dr. Alan Feduccia, of Chapel Hill, NC, must be foaming at the mouth at this news.

He's done some very elegant embryology to show that birds didn't evolve from dinosaurs. Although I think he's wrong, I like to think I saw a tiny dinosaur at my birdbath yesterday afternoon!

:^)

[dasboot]

The article quoted a scientist very careful to point out that the finding supported a theory.

"Most people believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but that's all based on the architecture of the bones," said Asara. "This allows you to get the chance to say, 'Wait, they really are related because their sequences are related.' We didn't get enough sequences to definitively say that, but what sequences we got support that idea."

However, what was most notable, was the way Reuters kicked it up a notch:

"A Tyrannosaurus rex femur bone is shown in this undated photograph. Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken. The study results were published in the April 13, 2007 edition of the journal 'Science.' (- c Science/Handout/Reuters)

PROOF!

The newt and frog stuff probably should have given them pause, until they could get a little more 'proof'. It sort of scrambles things. Suppose the next set of samples yield.....mammalian sequences? Tuna! They'll look kinda foolish. [oh...no they won't: no one will ever know....'flush'.]

[RightWhale]

They have found the missing link between the ape and civilized man.

It’s us.

[LiteKeeper]

How can they find protein in a fossil?

[Doc Savage]

Ok. Explain in detail each individual "postive" mutation and the appropriate biochemical reactions resultant that prove your thesis.

All those tired of hearing grandiose statements that "Dinos evolved into birds", please flush now! Wow! Tidal wave!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Bob Bakker must be pleased to get some confirmation of his BADD theory.

[Vinnie]

Just this morning I was putting food in the bird feeder and was chased off by a velociwarbler.

[SunkenCiv]

Dinosaur protein sequenced - Lucky find shows up record-breaking fossil.
news@nature.com | 12 April 2007 | Heidi Ledford
Posted on 04/13/2007 6:14:00 PM EDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817005/posts

Ancient T. rex and mastodon protein fragments discovered, sequenced
National Science Foundation | 12-Apr-2007 | Cheryl Dybas
Posted on 04/12/2007 3:43:57 PM EDT by AdmSmith
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1816333/posts

BBC: Protein links T. rex to chickens ~ ummm tasty....
BBC | Thursday, 12 April 2007, 19:27 GMT 20:27 UK | Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News
Posted on 04/12/2007 4:57:11 PM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816370/posts

Scientists Retrieve Proteins From Dinosaur Bone
New York times | April 12, 2007 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 04/12/2007 5:05:00 PM EDT by gcruse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816375/posts