Massive Cock
is presumably what the male chickenosaurus is called.
GIANT FLESH-EATING DEVIL CHICKENS roamed North Dakota
The middle of North America was overrun by terrifying swarms of enormous flesh-eating demon chickens some 66 million years ago, scientists have declared. Credit: Courtesy Bob Walters Devilish, yes ... but presumably we're talking about a really serious drumstick here “It was a giant raptor, but with a chicken-like head and …
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Thursday 20th March 2014 14:30 GMT James Micallef
Re: Mmmmm....
As extensively researched by yours truly and backed up by Mr. E. Cartman, the skin is the best part of roast/ fried chicken. Having a giant chicken vastly reduces the all-important skin:meat ratio. Better 10,000 modern chickens than 1 giganto-paleo-chicken of equivalent weight.
And beer to wash it down of course
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Thursday 20th March 2014 14:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Speed and intelligence
One thing I do wonder about these dinosaurs is how fast and how intelligent they actually were. Although I know that there is no inherent bias in natural selection towards either (survival of the fittest does not mean that going to the gym increases survival chances) I do wonder if the evolutionary arms race was at a less advanced stage then.
It may be that, like frogs, their brains were basically movement or smell sensitive, and that simply standing still would have caused them to lose interest and wander off. It may be that humans could simply out walk them if they were poikilothermic and so would overheat after a bit.
In any case, I think the "Hell" epithet is unproven.
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Thursday 20th March 2014 15:00 GMT DNTP
Re: Speed and intelligence
Lets play this game. Which would you rather be hunted by, a giant turkey demon with catlike speed and high intelligence, or a car sized frog that acts as an ambush predator?
One of them will try and chase you down, but having no knowledge of "shotguns" means this is a battle humans might win. The other sits invisibly buried in mud and bushes, until you take one careful step and it infallibly nails you with a twenty metre long paralytic stickytongue.
Edit: one of my friends almost got his paladin killed the second way playing D&D. GM ruled that an Infravision Helm wouldn't give a detection bonus to a cold blooded animal in the mud...
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Thursday 20th March 2014 20:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Speed and intelligence
I didn't understand your third paragraph at all, but a frog is an evolved predator that has to function in a world of small, fast birds and mammals as well as insects and other invertebrates. Natural selection has resulted in efficient predation in its ecological niche.
My question was about whether, at the epoch in question, aviform dinosaurs would have been fast or intelligent. We don't know. (modern bird brains are more efficient, size for size, than mammal brains, so in the absence of completely preserved soft tissue only speculation is possible.)
We don't know whether, in terms of its period, this thing was a chicken, a vulture, or a sparrowhawk.
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Thursday 20th March 2014 18:34 GMT Chris G
Re: the inoffensive, tiny chickens of today
I used to keep horses, goats, a couple of cows and about 80 chickens, even hens can be quite pugnacious when broody but the biscuit taker was a Leghorn rooster that belonged to a breeder I used to buy chickens and chicks from.
He was about 80cm high had razor sharp spurs 2 1/2" long and would go for anything/body that entered his pen, a damn good thing he wasn't 15 feet long!
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Thursday 20th March 2014 23:04 GMT 404
Re: the inoffensive, tiny chickens of today
Yep, Lewis is incorrect here. I've got a rooster that has attacked the wife and daughter, little fucker goes for the eyes with his spurs.
fyi: There is such a thing as a chicken tractor, upper level for nesting and laying, lower fenced-in part so they can be 'outside'. You move it every three or four days and it greens up the yard nicely. Negligible smell this way as opposed to a traditional chicken coop. Eggs taste better too.
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Friday 21st March 2014 09:05 GMT Killraven
Re: the inoffensive, tiny chickens of today
Speaking as somebody who's actually raised chickens in North Dakota... they're really not that big anymore. :-)
Seriously though, as others have mentioned already, chickens are not inoffensive or, more accurately, non-offensive. If one chicken somehow becomes bloodied, say through accident or laying an egg a bit too large for the exit, the others will go completely cannibalistic and absolutely rip that one apart. Small critters like mice and frogs do not live long amongst chickens either.
Chickens will go as bonkers as any shark to the smell of blood and the taste of raw meat.
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Friday 21st March 2014 10:24 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: the inoffensive, tiny chickens of today
Chickens will go as bonkers as any shark to the smell of blood and the taste of raw meat.
Why, oh why, oh why haven't the James Bond producers used this/
"Number 2, you have failed me for the last time!" [presses switch on desk, trapdoor opens]
What would Bond's line be, as he pushes a henchmen into the chicken pen, during his escape from the evil lair I wonder?
"Clucking hell!"
"What a fowl trick?"
"They were looking a bit peckish"
I'd better stop now, before I go pun-crazy.
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