Some of the comments here illustrate how strong the forces of ignorance, superstition and darkness can be.

While religiosity does not prove the existence of a 'god', the kind of religiosity, as exemplified on this page, makes me suspect that a devil may, after all, exist.

qed, London,

I must say I'm surprised at the about face - Dinos from chickens - I thought the evilutionists said it was the other way around.

I have found the REAL reason for this aritcle - check out the fourth last paragrah - - these researchers will be able to open up a wonderful new branch of investigation

Mark Bradfield, Londonderry, N.I.

P.S. I wonder what the next sieve will be that is to be used to try and bail out the sinking ship that is the theory of evolution?

Mark Bradfield, Londonderry, N.I.

It is not T. Rex....it is... G. Rex!

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

A theory that attempts to support a theory which is accepted as law is not a theory at all. It is simply bad science, as the theory is based on the assumption that the theory accepted as law is correct - but, that is what we have come to expect in this day and age! Poor science!

David, Barnstaple, Devon

Aren't humans 70% the same as bananas when it comes to DNA? I'm not sure this proves anything. It appears that DNA - the building block of life is just that - and it's in all that lives and we all have lot in common. God still fills the gaps that evolution fails to fill.

Julie Ann Hilton, Georgetown , West Indies

Bob,
God wrote the "universal sims" program that we're all characters in. The Koschei built the computer that it's running on. Science tells us about the parameters of the simulated world that we are in, and religion tells us about why God ran it in the first place.

Brother Phil. (ULC)

Brother Phil. (ULC), Southend on Sea, UK

Time to finally lay the God theory to rest at last. This is solid proof of evolution.

Len, London, UK

You make it sound such a bad thing, If one day I evolved into a bird, I think I would quite enjoy flying around!

adrian, aldershot, England

Here we go again the chicken, the egg or the Tea Rex

Hilmi, london,

I have a real hard time buying this one.

Robert Tilford , McCracken, Kansas, USA

It is not written that we must obsequiously swallow all the profound pronouncements of politicians, scientists and preachers....especially when their
hallowed and grandiose theories lose touch with reality and common sense. The futile quest to determine the age of the universe is likewise nonsense.

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

No way. Researchers are obviously celebrating april fools day a little late. HAHA! You got me!

Clark Kent, smallville, US

IF the theory that extinction of the Dinos was rapid and caused by the cataclysmic impact on Earth of an asteroid is correct, then clearly NOTHING evolved from the dinos! To attempt to draw a close evolutionary or biological link betw. dinos and modern birds is as clearly an insult to common sense!

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

So a chicken is an under-grown dinosaur?

Simon Phillips, Oxford,

Yeah, but he was a darn big mean chicken that would have seen us as tasty snacks.

Kathy, Kansas City, MO, USA

I'm really not sure which of the comments on here are serious and which are... not...

I'm guessing Garth Rex is the latter :o)

Evolution is a theory. An amazingly accurate one. And research like this helps in our understanding of the little rock we call home.

Can't we just ignore God altogether?

Ian M, Sheffield, UK

John of Inverness, it does speak of the anatomy:

“These results match predictions made from skeletal anatomy, providing the first molecular evidence for the evolutionary relationships of a nonavian dinosaur,” Chris Organ, of Harvard University in the US, said.

Elizabeth, Edinburgh,

Having read the comments, many people don't seem to understand what the findings mean.

Whilst the T-Rex is closely related to chickens, it is not a DIRECT ancestor, but it does share a COMMON ancestor.

Sonny Sidhu, Leicester, United Kingdom

So they expect us to believe that a carnivorous animal, ten times the size of an elephant, with a long alligator-like tail, and a mouthful of vicious teeth, evolved into.... a hen? How stupid are we, really?

Maybe those "researchers" need to find something useful to do with their time! ! !

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

How does it prove anything when evolution is a theory?

It only SUPPORTS the theory, it doesn't prove a damn thing. I may be being picky but prove is a very strong word.

Sean, London,

In 1973 as a school child I realised that Dinosaurs like T Rex could have only been the ancestors to birds and as such were warm blooded, I was ten at the time!
I was laughed at by all and told off by the teachers but still I would tell anyone who would listen, for thirty five years!
Funny eh?

Stephanie King, Larnaca, Cyprus

Big chicken, what a load of hype. Regardless of its very very distant relations, this thing was a 35-40 foot long meat eating ravenous beast with large teeth.

It is a good thing to map out the evolutionary tree, but not very useful to call T-Rex a Chicken.

Matt, Vancouver, Canadia

Dinosaurs had thick solid bones. Birds have hollow bones that are very light in order for flight. Land-dwelling creatures have lungs with a two-directional flow. In birds however, air follows just one direction through the lungs. This satisfies birds' high energy requirements. Also there are no intermediary fossils.

Krister, Manchester, England

Sorry John, still doesn't change my comment. You break down collagen, check it against some chickens and ostriches and a couple other species and you get dinosaurs are closer to chickens than ostriches and from that you get proof for evolution?At least try to find the links before reporting 'proof'.

Phil, Guildford,

God?!? God?!? where is the proof of "god" planning ahead. Its proposterous, this is further evidence of EVOLUTION. Deal with it!!!

Chris, Benfleet, England

If it took T. Rex 88 million years to evolve into a chicken, I wonder what humans will evole into that time in the future ? Maybe we shall be in cages as food for evolved ants.

jono, cela , portugal

Phil in Guilford should read the article again as it does not say anything about "Similar Bones Structures"

Please try and keep up.

John, Inverness,

All this proves to me is that dinosaurs have similar bone structures to birds, something that has been known for years if not decades. How they then jump to t-rex evolving to chickens with the only convincing proof they have is a 'its most similar to'. What were they comparing it to?

Phil, Guildford,

just so pointless, though. how much money was spent on this?

Steve, Belfast,

Having once owned a few chickens

Anything smaller than them gets eaten, and even a cat gets pecked.

Just consider life from an insect perspective

Nicholas Iles, Oswestry, Shropshire

Just as well there weren't any roads then.

Chris D, Edinburgh, Scotland

This is an example of the wonderful kind of science that could never come about if creationists got their way.

Jason Horton, Havant, England

When God decided to make a world for us he really did plan ahead. Science increasingly discovers Gods amazing attention to detail. Chicken is not just fast-food!

Michael, Penarth, Wales

By the heavenly Gods that live forever! How humiliating! From Tyrant to Chicken down the evolutionary stairs!

Oh, how unlike the place from which they fell!

It really is better to roar in Hell than to be served in Heaven.

Eugene, heidelberg, germany

What! They put this through the DNA spectrometer! Personally I would have got Jamie Oliver to cook up something. Just imagine how much you could have charged.

Mike Man, Hull , England

Perhaps T-Rex should be renamed T-Chix.

Lee, London,

so where does god fit into all this?

Bob, Slough,

Imagine Colonel Saunders of Kentucky Fried Chicken
getting a hold of a DINOSAUR! (Imagine the dinosaur getting a hold of Colonel Saunders! Yummy!).

As Sir Winston Churchill said: "Some chicken..some neck!" (Adolph Hitler had said that he would "wring Britain's neck as if it were a chicken!"

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA