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'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest
sciencehabit writes "A newly described dinosaur might look like a chicken, but don't be fooled: It was nearly 4 meters long, weighed about 250 kilograms, and lived 66 million years ago in what is today the Hell Creek rock formation in North and South Dakota. That's why its discoverers are calling it the 'chicken from hell,' and indeed it was related to early birds and to feathered, birdlike dinos that brooded over their nests, such as Oviraptor. The creature had a toothless beak, sharp claws, and a tall crest on top of its head. It is the largest Oviraptor-like dinosaur found in North America."
a.k.a. "Kentucky Fried Chicken"
Jesus rode it...
... to the obligatory Far Side Eggs and baby cartoon.
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Nice try. I know math late at night might be hard.
4 meters = ~13 feet
250Kg = ~550 lbs. = ~1/4 ton
Must be a hunter or fisherman. "You should have seen the one that got away..."
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Wasn't it recently figured that most dinosaurs in fact had feathers? Or is this some secluded sect paleontology? In which case I can think of a number of favored dinosaurs that fit the bill of "chicken from hell" a lot better.
Because if it tasted like Chicken I see a much better economic investment in a future Jurassic Park than as a tourist trap!
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Was it more Chicken tasting, or Ostrich like?
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You just need a bigger bag. Maybe it would fit into a goalie bag, after some processing if needed. I know you can fit tons of money in those:
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... es El Pollo Diablo!
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they probably found the remains of Ultra Mega Chicken who was infact raised from the dead.
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Es "El Pollo Diablo"
I keep a few chickens. Little cute bantam chickens, fairly tame too. Currently 8, which is about the most I've ever had.
Observing these critters is quite interesting. For one, teaching them new things (e.g. drinking from chicken nipples, or walking up a plank to their roost when they are yet too small to fly up) is fairly easy and requires maybe one or two times of showing one, the rest soon follow. They may not be Einsteins, but they sure have more intelligence than often attributed to them.
The other thing is that they eat almost anything. I would occasionally see them running around with a mouse or frog that they caught, which would get eaten eventually. (Remember these are quite small birds, about half the size of what one normally thinks of as chicken size.) Observing that, I've often been glad that they aren't bigger. The neighbor's Rottweiler, on the other side of the 8' fence, wouldn't be safe either. Chicken from hell, indeed.
If we can breed chickens and get them to shorten their hatch-to-slaughter time down to 21 days ( and getting shorter ), we should try resurrect this beast and start breeding them.
One of these weight 250KG, or equivalent of almost 150 chickens.
It would solve the world hunger problem in no time !
I believe you about the chickens. Cocks - wait for all the 14 year olds to stop sniggering - can be quite vicious to each other. Now scale it up 10 times and you have a Cassowary - the most dangerous bird on the planet which has killed a number of people. There is a youtube video (too lazy to look for it) of a pair of them stalking some keepers in a zoo - quite frightening. Now take them and increase their size another 3 times and you have this dinosaur. I for one would not want to go anywhere near it.
Monkey Island knew it all along!
A 13 foot long, quarter ton chicken would NOT be the kind of animal I'd want to get angry. Or be anywhere near when it's hungry. Even though this article says they were "ecological generalists that fed upon vegetation, small animals, and perhaps eggs." I wouldn't want to be the one to test whether this bird/dinosaur would decide to add people to its diet.
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A 13 foot long, quarter ton chicken would NOT be the kind of animal I'd want to get angry. Or be anywhere near when it's hungry. Even though this article says they were "ecological generalists that fed upon vegetation, small animals, and perhaps eggs." I wouldn't want to be the one to test whether this bird/dinosaur would decide to add people to its diet.
For a sufficiently large bird, people are small animals!
Could we deep fat fry them?
If they're anything like Pigeons from Hell, we're all screwed.
Have gnu, will travel.
We should build a dino-chicken right now! Just not one that weighs 250kg.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken
I am kind of surprised that I am apparently the only one that is thinking this sounds kind of like a Chocobo. I guess my brain was warped by too many Final Fantasy games in my youth.
If only we could recreate these and race them! Better yet, they could be the solution for the elimination of fossil fuel based personal ground transport. Who needs a Tesla when you have a Chocobo?
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Caalll for Super Chicken!
Ba-buck!
Or maybe it's Baby Huey.
We are the 198 proof..
which can tip the scales at over 300 pounds. They also lay eggs that make omelets big enough to feed 10 people.