Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-50.81.142.215-20141216221839

Well, a paper detailing the comparison of the genomes of 21 modern birds and 1 modern reptile was recently published in the open access journal BMC Genomics. They discovered that chickens and turkeys are more closely related to non-avian dinosaurs than their modern-day avian relatives. A step closer to some kind of real- life Jurassic Park? 