r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • 29d ago

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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u/Curious_Viking89 29d ago

Except that's a tyrannosaur chick. And tyrannosaurs aren't the ancestors of chickens

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u/Winter-Actuary-9659 29d ago

I didn't know that, I thought it was one of those little ones that survived the  mass extinction.

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u/Curious_Viking89 29d ago

All the dinosaurs that survived the cretaceous mass extinction were already very similar to modern birds

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u/Winter-Actuary-9659 29d ago

That's what I meant.