Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 "We determined that T. rex, in fact, grouped with birds -- ostrich and chicken -- better than any other organism we studied. We also show that it groups better with birds than modern reptiles, such as alligators and green anole lizards," Asara said.
The research was published in this week's issue of Science. The same team also reported that a similar analysis of 160,000- to 600,000-year-old collagen protein from mastodon bone shows a close evolutionary link between that extinct species and modern elephants.
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