HazelMcCallister
A misfit
Since: Jul, 2016
A misfit
Jun 26th 2017 at 12:51:20 PM
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"As a somewhat hilarious postscript, the present-day living creature with the closest genetic similarity to T. rex is... the chicken."
I'm not a geneticist, but given that birds come from a different theropod lineage than tyrannosaurs, shouldn't ALL birds be equally genetically distant from Tyrannosaurus?
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HazelMcCallister
Since: Jul, 2016
Jul 13th 2017 at 7:22:53 AM
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Okay, if no one can clarify what this quote means by the end of the month, I'm just going to delete it.
Note to all: I don't participate in the forums here unless something much more important than TV Tropes content is at stake.
Snicka
Since: Jun, 2011
Mar 3rd 2018 at 6:02:57 AM
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You are absolutely right from a biological point of view. I think the emphasis on chickens, out of all birds, in only due to Rule of Funny (since chickens are funnier than other birds).
Since this was never posted here, Tyrannosaurus Rex has been disambiguated per TRS
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