Back in 2003, a T. Rex femur was found to have preserved soft tissue – a first in a fossil. That first has lead to another, the first protein analysis of dinosaur tissue. The results, T. Rex was a lot like a chicken.

Full article on Clucker Rex here.

As an armchair paleontologist, I’m thrilled with just this fragment of information. It is one more tiny bit of evidence linking therapods with birds.