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 Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:21 pm
A few years ago I heard that the infamous Tyrannosaurus has "evolved" into a chicken. True? False? Please add your opinions and facts.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:01 pm
I've never heard that before, I've heard whispers that they may have had a common ancestor but I have no idea how that panned out and it was from a while back.
I'm pretty sure T-Rex was the end for that line though.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:53 pm
You seem to not know how evolution works.
Look at the skeletal structure of t-rex style dinosaurs, like the velociraptor and compy. They are very similar to those of birds we see today, though our birds have hollowed bones for flight. However, it doesn't take much imagination to go from scales to feathers, especially granted several million years.
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:06 am
Semiremis I've never heard that before, I've heard whispers that they may have had a common ancestor but I have no idea how that panned out and it was from a while back. I'm pretty sure T-Rex was the end for that line though. Same here
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:21 am
divineseraph You seem to not know how evolution works. Look at the skeletal structure of t-rex style dinosaurs, like the velociraptor and compy. They are very similar to those of birds we see today, though our birds have hollowed bones for flight. However, it doesn't take much imagination to go from scales to feathers, especially granted several million years. Sadly not many do. Damn Pokemon. D:
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:01 pm
Quote: T-rex = Chicken T-rex ---(evolves into)---> Something----(evolves into)-----> Something---(evolves into)---> Something----(evolves into)-------> Something--(evolves into)--> Something and then another something and then another something--(evolves into)---> A bunch of other somethings------(eventually evolves into)------> Chicken Fix'd. See how different that is? And by the way, Humans did not evolve from Monkeys! Humans and Monkeys just both evolved from the same common ancestor. The same thing that evolved into monkeys and apes also evolved into humans, separately. They are cousins on the Evolutionary chart. (Pet Peeve)
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:20 pm
I didn't mean directly. Of course it takes time and many different creatures before the animal that we see today appears. I meant if anyone knew if they shared a direct ancestor.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:37 am
MeroMerokono I didn't mean directly. Of course it takes time and many different creatures before the animal that we see today appears. I meant if anyone knew if they shared a direct ancestor. Well, all living organisms share a common ancestor razz
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:18 pm
MeroMerokono I didn't mean directly. Of course it takes time and many different creatures before the animal that we see today appears. I meant if anyone knew if they shared a direct ancestor. The Chicken is the closest living relative of the T-Rex, yes.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:37 pm
They did share a common ancestor, but yeah, the t-rex didn't evolve into anything because they were all utterly destroyed by a big chunk of rock.
But T-rex was a theropod, and theropods are ancestors of chickens. Archaeopteryx and similar, yes.
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:31 am
Lumanny the Space Jew The Chicken is the closest living relative of the T-Rex, yes. No the chicken specifically, all modern birds.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:47 pm
*Response to original question*
---I must agree that most people don't really understand how evolution works... sad but it's all good. 3nodding
---Tyrannosaurus Rex (originally Manospondylus gigas) didn't evolve into anything, it went extinct. Some of the dromaeosaurids though evolved into birds though...
*Response to Sanguina Cruenta*
---There are quite a few many flaws with the asteroid impact theory, the double impact theory, the Deccan traps theory, the Sea level regression theory, etc. None explain how the only species of the Archosauria class (see Scientific American book of Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Renaissance by Robert T. Bakker) to survive were birds. sweatdrop
---It had to have been a combination of circumstances, some scientists suggest the extinction event was possibly began millions of years before the chixulub event.
---There have never been any charred dino corpses originating from 65 million years ago (presumably a direct result of the impact), because there is no evidence that there were any dinos left when the asteroid finally hit the yucatan peninsula... question
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