Friday, April 25, 2008

T. Rex is really a Thunder Chicken

Using "soft tissue" recovered more or less through chance, this group sequenced collagen from T. rex, then used that to create an evolutionary tree. Consistent with current understanding from other approaches, T. rex groups with the birds, not lizards. Pretty cool.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5875/499

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