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r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • 29d ago
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Except that's a tyrannosaur chick. And tyrannosaurs aren't the ancestors of chickens
3 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago Yeah, birds are basically dromarosauridae. Which means the tyrannosaur is related to the chicken, but not an ancestor if I remember correctly 2 u/Curious_Viking89 29d ago That is correct. Both are therapods. 2 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago To add to this. Chickens aren't the closest related bird to tyrannosaurus. Don't know where that came from but yeah it's not true Edit:said dinosaurs instead of tyrannosaurs 3 u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago Technically they are, in the sense that all birds are equally related to the T. rex. 1 u/DizzyGlizzy029 28d ago Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
Yeah, birds are basically dromarosauridae. Which means the tyrannosaur is related to the chicken, but not an ancestor if I remember correctly
2 u/Curious_Viking89 29d ago That is correct. Both are therapods. 2 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago To add to this. Chickens aren't the closest related bird to tyrannosaurus. Don't know where that came from but yeah it's not true Edit:said dinosaurs instead of tyrannosaurs 3 u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago Technically they are, in the sense that all birds are equally related to the T. rex. 1 u/DizzyGlizzy029 28d ago Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
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That is correct. Both are therapods.
2 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago To add to this. Chickens aren't the closest related bird to tyrannosaurus. Don't know where that came from but yeah it's not true Edit:said dinosaurs instead of tyrannosaurs 3 u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago Technically they are, in the sense that all birds are equally related to the T. rex. 1 u/DizzyGlizzy029 28d ago Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
To add to this. Chickens aren't the closest related bird to tyrannosaurus. Don't know where that came from but yeah it's not true
Edit:said dinosaurs instead of tyrannosaurs
3 u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago Technically they are, in the sense that all birds are equally related to the T. rex. 1 u/DizzyGlizzy029 28d ago Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
Technically they are, in the sense that all birds are equally related to the T. rex.
1 u/DizzyGlizzy029 28d ago Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
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Yeah that's I meant, but most people think that the chicken is a direct descendant from the tyrannosaurus.
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u/Curious_Viking89 29d ago
Except that's a tyrannosaur chick. And tyrannosaurs aren't the ancestors of chickens