Dinosaurian Chickens

[Henk69]

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Actually.....we don't KNOW this. Evolution is still just a theory and it was refuted by its theorist before he died. The very reason you don't see dinosaur/chickens in mid-evolutionary cycle.

Everything is just a theorie (nothing can be proven really if you don't accept the evidence) but this Theory is the biggest one ever.
It may be more brilliant than we think at the moment though...

 

[Goose and Fig]

ETA: I can't believe the first two responses mentioned the "Creator". It's a little odd.

And on the 6th day God created Starbucks

I'm sorry, but I'm a geologist and I can't help but laugh.​

 

[Cuban Longtails]

There are oriental breed fowl that occassionally hatch with the rudimentary wing claw. I know a shamo breeder (in the UK) who has witnessed it with her own birds, as well as a hobbiest in the US who had chicks hatch from his Saipan that displayed the claw. Usually it falls off, or gets absorbed as the chick grows.

 

[tackyrama]

I'll put it even more breifly - YUK!!

 

[Chris09]

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LOL.. Where do you think chicken fingers come from? Its all those little wing claws..

Chris

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I have silkies with wingclaws, and I've read that it is common in OEG and other game breeds.

DNA studies have shown chickens to be the closest living relatives of T-Rex. This study was published two or three years ago, maybe 4--times goes fast when you're ancient (as my kids say I am).

Gravity is a theory, but I'm certainly not going to dispute it.

 

[Beekissed]

I guess only time will tell, huh?

 

[Year of the Rooster]

While I think seeing a "partial" dinosaur-like creature alive today would be awesome, I think there is a point where "experiments" end and playing God begins.

Quote from Jurassic Park:

"God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs. God creates Man, Man creates dinosaur....... Dinosaurs eat Man... and Woman inherits the Earth (

)"

 

[cgmccary]

From Henck:

Beekissed wrote:
Okay at this point I'm sure we all know that chickens were descendants of dinosaurs

Actually.....we don't KNOW this. Evolution is still just a theory and it was refuted by its theorist before he died. The very reason you don't see dinosaur/chickens in mid-evolutionary cycle.

Everything is just a theorie (nothing can be proven really if you don't accept the evidence) but this Theory is the biggest one ever.
It may be more brilliant than we think at the moment though
​

I agree with you Henck. Gravity is just a theory but the apple still falls! Like gravity, Evolution is as close to fact as it is going to get . . . the theory is the details (gradual or punctuated? survival of the fittest or something else?). Whether you buy that the way the apple behaves when it falls from the tree is the way Newton said it did or the way Einstein "theorized" (the theory part), the fact is, the apple fell. Likewise, whether you accept Darwin's concept of "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection" or some of the more modern views, the fact is that plants and animals evolved over a long period of time.

I would also add that 99.99% of all species that have lived on this beautiful planet are now extinct!

Back to the question at hand: I have always thought the Turkens, the Shamos, the Asils, etc were just a step here or there of being close to a dinosaur. I believe there is some evidence that perhaps more than a few of the dinosaurs had feathers -- they just don't preserve as well as the bones. It should not be very difficult to make them look more dinosaur-like-- I just don't think I would want to look at it all day. Feathers are just modified scales aren't they? Isn't it pretty much accepted now that a number of the dinosaurs were warm-blooded-- at least the Raptors? I haven't kept up well with that debate.

Chris
(former Geologist/Micropaleontologist here waving to HappyMtn)

 

[ScoobyRoo]

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Funny you mentioned Jurassic Park. My turkey poults remind me of the small rapters that were in the movie. Runs like them, kinda looks like them AND sounds like them. Should I worry?