Tyrannosaurus Rex - More Avian than Reptilian?

Scientists from many disciplines have long debated the connection between dinosaurs and birds. Did birds descend from dinosaurs, or were many dinosaurs just simply birds? Modern birds lack the long bony tail and teeth of ancient prehistoric birds and dinosaurs. The largest Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found is now on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. However, many features of these fearsome prehistoric creatures are amazingly bird-like. Let's take a look at some of the similarities between the T. Rex and a modern bird.

The shoulder blade, wish bone, feet and many other structures resemble striking similarities to birds, as opposed to reptiles. New depictions of dinosaurs are now using feathers, and some mouths which use beaks as opposed to lips. While mainstream science would like to keep lying in its fantasy of reptiles, they continue to ignore the obvious facts:

"We determined that T. rex, in fact, grouped with birds – ostrich and chicken – better than any other organism that we studied," said researcher John Asara of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. "We also show that it groups better with birds than [with] modern reptiles, such as alligators and green anole lizards." [LiveScience]

The largest animal that ever walked the planet – Tyrannosaurus Rex – is more closely related to the modern chicken than it is to living reptiles such as the alligator or crocodile, a study of the dinosaur's fossilised protein has found. Researchers analysed a tiny shred of 68-million-year-old protein taken from the leg of T. Rex and compared it to the same protein found in 21 modern species. They confirmed that the giant animal is closely related to chickens and ostriches, but only to a lesser extent to reptiles such as alligators and crocodiles, which were thought to be more closely related to dinosaurs than other living creatures [The Independent].

We must re-question the dinosaur depictions and evolutionary assumptions, which also come from re-assembling of skulls and outer features. Much of what we see drawn and coloured is far from reality. Fossilized bones will merely reveal skeletal structure, not the differing muscle tissues, skin, and muscles, leaving us to imagine what these creatures actually looked like on the outside.