See That Cute Little Birdie? April 12, 2007
Posted by Michael in Science.trackback
Consider this little fellow, for example. It’s a Tufted Titmouse — a cute bird with an even cuter name.
Scientists are increasingly validating the Jurassic Park notion that they are the remnants of this guy:
This is good news, in my opinion. It means that 60 or 70 million years from now, there could be likable and good-looking descendants of Brewfan.
For the first time, researchers have read what they say is the biological signature of a tyrannosaur — a signature that confirms the increasingly accepted view that modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs.
The signature doesn’t come from studying the shape of the 68 million-year-old dinosaur’s fossilized bones, but from analyzing the organic material found inside those bones. It’s not DNA — despite what you’ve seen in movies like “Jurassic Park,” that genetic material couldn’t be recovered. But researchers say it’s the next-best thing: collagen proteins that were isolated using techniques on the very edge of what’s possible today.
T. Rex Analysis Supports Dino-Bird Link
In honor of the research regarding the genetic composition of collagen compounds, I am offering a musical double-header:
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It does kind of look like a mouse. But it has no tits.
hehe you said titmouse.
is there such a thing as a titswallow? cuz that will cause me to crack a rib.
heheheh, male chickens are called “cocks” what do they call male swallows?
If it’s cock-swallow, I will have nightmares, and crack another rib.
When I was a kid the zipper opening on mens and boys jeans was called the “barn door” and there IS such a thing as a barn swallow….
When I was a kid the zipper opening on mens and boys jeans was called the “barn door”
Mrs. Geezer talks about ‘dead soldiers’… what’s that all about?
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You will have to ask Mrs. Geezer.
“Dead soldiers” to me are empty beer bottles ’cause that is what my dad calls them.
And when you get a bucket of iced-down beer — they really do look dead when you put the empties up-side-down in the bucket.
Mrs. Michael is funny.
Prolly why she married michael cuz it takes a woman with a rather significant sense of humor to marry and mother the children of a man who think’s he’s batman.
mrs. Michael, you are an honorary peacetime marine.
that bird is very cute!
Dang, I had completely forgotten about this post.
I’m proud of it. You’ve got science, pictures, a great Brewfan joke, and two excellent music selections.
You can’t ask for more than that.
The likable and good-looking descendants already exist. Don’t make me break out the pics of the grandkids.
Fairly clever joke by Mrs M at #5
Fairly clever joke by Mrs M at #5
Yes, clever, and very risque for her. She was trying to fit in.