Tastes Like Ostrich

[billroper]

Researchers found soft tissue inside a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex thigh bone. No word yet on whether there was any surviving DNA.

Here's a second article with more detail. They don't think DNA is likely, which isn't a big surprise.

Comments

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

And doesn't ostrich taste like chicken. That's what it always seems to come down to... :)

[jabberwokky.livejournal.com]

On NPR they (they being the discoverers who are holed up in a lab with the tissue) said that they thought DNA was likely, but not enough to clone, and they were telling the media that there wasn't DNA, but there were genetic fragments, which would be useful for various scientific uses.

It's an amusing word game that seems to have successfully blocked banner headlines proclaiming that a T. Rex is about to walk among us.

[madfilkentist]

I'm confused by the statement that ostriches are the "closest living relatives of T. rex." Are ostriches considered more closely related to dinosaurs than other birds are?