Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks

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Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 4, 2005 @01:10AM from the we-all-read-jurassic-park dept.

ZeroExistenZ writes "timesonline reports the new "irrefutable" fossil evidence of dino's resembling "giant chicks" more then reptiles as formerly accepted. Gareth Dyke: "The way these creatures are depicted can no longer be considered scientifically accurate," he said. "All the evidence is that they looked more like birds than reptiles. Tyrannosaurs might have resembled giant chicks.""

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I, for one... by mattcurrie · 2005-09-04 01:12 · Score: 5, Funny

I, for one, welcome our new Giant Chick overlords.
1. Re:I, for one... by $cullyshouse · 2005-09-04 02:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look at that cute tyranasurus rex
  
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2. Re:I, for one... by frp001 · 2005-09-04 03:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Teeth or not, to take this comparison further, had humans been contemporary to those chickens, chances are high we would would have looked like giant worms.
  
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Damn... by Brandon+K · 2005-09-04 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

So it looks like I wouldn't have been able to score with a dinosaur, either...
1. Re:Damn... by Timesprout · 2005-09-04 01:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Don't put youself down so much. I'm sure you would have been a tasty, I mean interesting dinner date.
  
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2. Re:Damn... by Shoten · 2005-09-04 03:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Well, that all depends. If by "giant chicks," they really meant to say "fat chicks" but were just being nice about it, I'd say your odds go up significantly. :)
  
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3. Re:Damn... by Okonomiyaki · 2005-09-04 05:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So...American chicks, then?
I dated a giant chick once... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:14 · Score: 0, Funny

Yeah, only one date, but you know...the usual dinner & a movie ("Arthur", as I recall) and it went OK, but didn't lead to anything.
I wonder what she's doing now....

(oh, byt the way, I didn't RTFA)
1. Re:I dated a giant chick once... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I wonder what she's doing now....
  So sorry you have to learn it this way, but she's extinct. BTW don't you worry, just about everyone here on /. hasn't had a date in eons...
Ahh by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

That's why snakes taste like chicken.
Oblig. by kv9 · 2005-09-04 01:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Death by SNOO-SNOO!

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So.... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:17 · Score: 3, Funny

...think twice when you plan on wearing that "no fat chicks" tee today.
Artist Rendering by Comatose51 · 2005-09-04 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny

And here's an artist rendering of how they might have looked.

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1. Re:Artist Rendering by Julian+Morrison · 2005-09-04 01:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I was thinking more like this.
2. Re:Artist Rendering by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:53 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I wonder if they'll change King Kong to reflect this finding. I'd pay some serious cash to see Big Bird duke it out with a giant ape.
Real reason why Dinosaurs became excinct by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Colonel Sanders!

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moody? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 01:18 · Score: 3, Funny

What, were they all really moody or something?
Scientific discussion by Centurix · 2005-09-04 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

"Upon discovering the new fossilised remains of this giant 50 foot high chick, we've decided to name it the Darylhannansaur"

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I guess by Ice+Station+Zebra · 2005-09-04 01:22 · Score: 2, Funny

we are getting closer to answering the "who came first, the chicken or the egg" question.
1. Re:I guess by Sancho · 2005-09-04 01:53 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  So the egg glances over to the chicken and sighs, "I guess we finally answered that question."
Time travel by UnderDark · 2005-09-04 01:32 · Score: 3, Funny

50 foot chickens eh?
Anyone else thinking "barbeque"?
1. Re:Time travel by maxwell+demon · 2005-09-04 01:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Did you read the subject line?
  And have you ever thought about why the dinos died out? :-)
  
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Just dont.. by Snaller · 2005-09-04 01:34 · Score: 3, Funny

...stand underneath when they lay an egg!

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square got it right. by aircheck · 2005-09-04 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny

So they're like chocobos then? Chocobos with sharp, pointy teeth.
Worst. Sentence. Ever. by Petter3 · 2005-09-04 01:41 · Score: 3, Funny

timesonline reports the new "irrefutable" fossil evidence of dino's resembling
"giant chicks" more then reptiles as formerly accepted.

1. Capitalize.
2. "dino's"?
3. Then != Than
4. I'd like to kill you for submitting this.
Evidence by rijrunner · 2005-09-04 01:49 · Score: 2, Funny

I always knew there was something sinister about this creature
Re:Scientists were mistaken ? by jarich · 2005-09-04 01:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Ah, you must be thinking of religion. Scientific ideas change all the time.
I know a few scientists who may say this in private, but in public they are ~very~ sure every they have idea is right. Scientists as a lot are the most arrogant people I've ever worked around.
And I work with software developers! ;)

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I can imagine.. by Klowner · 2005-09-04 02:20 · Score: 4, Funny

<CavemanBob> AAAAUgHHhhHHh! Why can't you just SHUT UP?
<HugeChickRex> It was like, so hilarious! I hadn't realized I left that pizza there in there for a MONTH! *snort*
<CavemanBob> AAaaghghu I make you extinct now!
Oh - the poor T.Rex by sbaker · 2005-09-04 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh the poor T.Rex...gone from being the most powerful and vicious creature imaginable - chasing down jeeps and eating lawyers and shaking the ground as it runs...then we hear that if it ran at more than 8 mph, it would fall over...then that if it ever did fall over, it couldn't get back up again...then they told us that it was merely a scavenger and not a hunter at all.

AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A GIANT, FLUFFY YELLOW CHICK?!?

Nooooo!

T.Rex's had laser eyes, breathed fire and had enormous leathery batlike wings that don't show up in the fossil record because they were shed every year to grow new ones. They could run at 80mph and ate several Diploducus for breakfast every morning before having violent terratorial disputes that took up the rest of their days. At night they tracked down and ate cavemen. Their advanced (but brutal and inhumane) society dominated the earth for 20 million years and was only brought down by alien civilisations hurling giant flaming meteors at them from the safe distance of the Kyper belt.

OK - maybe I lost a bit of scientific detachment there - but..*REALLY*.

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So? by JustNiz · 2005-09-04 03:30 · Score: 2, Funny

I live in Georgia. There are still like millions of giant chicks here.
Spielberg renames movie by payndz · 2005-09-04 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

It's now Jurassic PA-KAAAWWK!

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Something fishy here (no pun intended) by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-04 04:09 · Score: 1, Funny

Dinos were giant chicks... proposed by Dr. Dyke... coincidence? I think not.
Boo by EEBaum · 2005-09-04 05:21 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm telling you, he's not a dinosaur. He's a giant chicken! Why won't anyone believe me?

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Re:Ever seen chickens attack a bug? by meringuoid · 2005-09-04 08:44 · Score: 3, Funny

If you've ever lived or worked on farm with chickens you've seen how relentless and brutal they are chasing insects. Even stinging insects like bees and wasps are no match for that lightning fast beak. Free range chickens are quick and intelligent hunters.
They're quite tribal, too. I mean, you're a mighty warrior hero with more Pieces of Heart than you can count, you wander into town and start slashing at a chicken just for fun, next thing you know there's an entire flock of them, they're all over the place and all attacking you and all you can do is run...

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