What Came First, The Chicken or The T-Rex? The Possibilities of Evolution [Science]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Damian Bravo, a Sasquatch believer. You can join Damian's group Sasquatch Lives? on Facebook.

In the ever changing evolutionary world, the mysteries that are or have been discovered can sometimes bring surprising revelations and possibilities. Right now if you can see a bird or have one for a pet, there is a possibility that you might be looking at a dinosaur. In recent years scientist have been linking the T-Rex (Tyrannosaurus rex) to one of the world’s most favorite fowl to eat, especially if you like its friend, the chicken (Gallus domesticus.). It is quiet unimaginable to think that from such an immense beast like the T-Rex, that existed millions of years ago such a connection could be found.

Now we all know that chickens are not the smartest birds in the world, but neither was the T-Rex, they both have brains the size of a marble, the only difference, T-Rex was believed to be an apex hunter. In a study that was started in 2003, from a unearthed T-Rex leg bone, which looks like a giant drumstick, which was by found Jack Horner from the Museum of the Rockies. The study found the T-Rex bones still contain intact soft tissue, including the oldest preserved proteins ever found, scientists said at the time.

From the protein's chemical structure they determined a possible evolutionary link between T-Rex and chickens. According to two studies published in the April 13 issue of the journal Science. The collagen found in the T-Rex is the main ingredient of connective tissue in animals and is found in cartilage, ligaments, tendons, hooves, bones and teeth, which yields gelatin and glue when boiled in water.

The new finding at the time were viewed skeptically and were thought to be very, very, very controversial because at the time most scientists had gone on record saying “there's an absolute time limit to anything that's protein or DNA," said Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University.

Dr. Mary Schweitzer first discovered soft tissue in dinosaur fossils almost two decades ago.

These finds are now being looked at as a possible connection, as science progresses new equipment and technology are been invented to make significant contributions. If this is possible with one species, could you imagine what other fantastic changes may have occurred in other species? Just like a giant reptile might had become a small fowl, could a small animal become a super evolved hominid but at the same time become sometime more primal but less human with some high level of intelligence. As we evolved new discoveries are waiting to be found, you never know it may be right in front of your eyes.

Below, renowned paleontologist Jack Horner gives a talk about how closely related chickens are to dinosaurs and how it's possible we can bring the giant creatures back to life. Basically, what they're trying to do is take our chicken, modify it, and make a chickenosaurus:

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".