They 'tasted' like Chicken

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Imagine this, you walk to the back of your farm and head over towards the chicken coops, you look inside; but instead of chickens you're presented with two tyrannosaur hatchlings. Sure this example is utterly silly but it wouldn't have been impracticable. 

In the past four years one of the most interesting discoveries about the tyrannosaur (T-Rex) has been its ties to the modern chicken. Most of us have settled with the idea that there must be a direct tie between dinosaurs and modern animals like the iguanodon and alligator, but with the discovery of a similar protein found in both the T-Rex and the modern chicken we would be foolish not to re-think our perception of this ancient giant on both the physical and psychological aspects.

Did the T-Rex have a primitive layer of feathers? Did it present a comb (red fleshy growth)? Was its motions twitchy, instead of slow and smooth like we see in larger reptiles?

If so, our interpretations of the T-Rex in books, movies, and art could change dramatically. Lets look at a direct ancestor of today's chicken.

The Red Junglefowl; native to Indochina, is one of the direct ancestors of chickens. They express behavior such as gathering food and using it to attract mates, paternity is also a trait of the Junglefowl, as it uses its loud crow to act as a predator alarm for its mate and chicks. Studying such modern animals like the chicken and junglefowl could possibly be the key to the behavior of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaur.