quote: Researchers compared organic molecules preserved in the T. rex fossils with those of living animals, and found they were similar to chicken protein.
The discovery of protein in dinosaur bones is a surprise - organic material was not thought to survive this long.
The article goes on to say that T. Rex would probably have tasted pretty good with some bread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy.
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Think about how much BBQ sauce you would've needed for one of those beasts. MMMMM! Barbecued T Rex. *drool*
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Except of course that a T-Rex eats a lot, and animals at that. It's one step worse than keeping cows which eat grain which we could eat; each step is about 10% efficient, so grassland to support one human on grazing cows could support ten humans on grain. But it would only support one-tenth of a human on T-Rexes that eat the cows that eat the grass.
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I wonder how a T. Rex could compare with a rooster when it comes to waking people up at the crack of dawn?
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Pretty funky. Looks like they did tandem mass spectrometry to sequence peptides from fossilized T-Rex bones and them did a homology search and found matches with seven proteins, "three matched chickens, two matched several species including chickens, one matched a protein from a newt and the other from a frog."
Also to thwart the inevitable joke, a handful of proteins (peptides, really) != (full DNA sequence && Jurassic Park scenario)
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No problemo, there are a lot of people around. Eventually the supply of people to feed the T-Rex meets the demand of people who want to eat the T-Rex.
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KoM's arguments about the efficiency might have to be reevaluated;
It opens up a whole new world in terms of figuring how and what to feed them.
I don't see that it makes a difference. A scavenger is the same as a carnivore in terms of the efficiency: They both eat meat which has already eaten grass. I trust you're not going to argue that the Rex was a plant-eater, with those teeth.
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quote: There are compelling arguments that he was actually a scavenger
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quote: Nowhere in the scientific literature does anyone present evidence to support T. rex being a predator
Dr. Jack Horner may be able to dismiss Jurassic Park since the Sam Neil character was based on him, but has he bothered to watch a Land Before Time or all the other movies that prove him wrong?!
Yet again we have another researcher who cherry picks data. Shame Dr. Horner. SHAAAME Posts: 2445 | Registered: Oct 2004
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