Nope. That’s just a shitty article. Here you can read that 1) what they compared was not T-rex’s DNA, it was collagen and 2) the results confirmed the closest relatives to dinosaurs were birds in general, not chicken.
By the way, dinosaur DNA might indeed have already been found (in a hadrosaurid called Hypacrosaurus), but it’s not entirely sure yet.
I hope you are not being sarcastic. It is exciting to find people that don’t know about this. And I am totally serious because this is such a cool discovery. While we knew for long time that birds are dinosaurs, seeing the latter with feathers makes today’s chicken looking even more majestic.
The theropodes (raptors of all sizes) all had. Some even had some huge feathers on their heads, maybe with vibrant colors.
I’m not sure what is currently known about the others. I know some definitively didn’t have feathers, and it was not only the theropodes that had them. The feathers had move diverse shapes than on the birds too.
What do you mean, they had feathers??
Wait until you imagine a giant rooster call
Yeah, imagine that giant cock just singing to you.
Chickens are the closest modern ancestor of the Tyranasaurus Rex. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Is it really chickens specifically that are the closest relative, not any other bird?
Yep
Nope. That’s just a shitty article. Here you can read that 1) what they compared was not T-rex’s DNA, it was collagen and 2) the results confirmed the closest relatives to dinosaurs were birds in general, not chicken. By the way, dinosaur DNA might indeed have already been found (in a hadrosaurid called Hypacrosaurus), but it’s not entirely sure yet.
So it’s inclusive of ostriches and not exclusive of chickens, so what I said was entirely correct just incomplete.
Technically yes. You forgot to include all other birds. Chicken and ostriches are mentioned at the beginning of the article as examples of birds.
I hope you are not being sarcastic. It is exciting to find people that don’t know about this. And I am totally serious because this is such a cool discovery. While we knew for long time that birds are dinosaurs, seeing the latter with feathers makes today’s chicken looking even more majestic.
There’s an XKCD for that.
The first xkcd I ever did see was this one, fitting that its also the first xkcd I’ve witnessed referenced on Lemmy
The theropodes (raptors of all sizes) all had. Some even had some huge feathers on their heads, maybe with vibrant colors.
I’m not sure what is currently known about the others. I know some definitively didn’t have feathers, and it was not only the theropodes that had them. The feathers had move diverse shapes than on the birds too.