This is not an April Fool - watch out

[madderbat]

Hi everyone, don't know if you've caught up with the news today, but this scared the lights out of me. I was thinking of keeping chickens, but....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/st...056218,00.html

[shirlthegirl43]

Cool.

Guess that means we are okay to feed meat scraps to the chooks then - or should we avoid that in case they reverse evolve?

[Nicos]

I wonder if 'they' are now considering if T-Rex was wiped out from bird flu and not the meteor theory????

[Flummery]

You only have to watch a chicken running to see velociraptor in its gene pool! I think this has been know for ages. Bird ancestors - archaeopterix etc - were dinosaurs. Don't let's get our gardening trousers in a twist!

[TPeers]

Yeah, but it's fun! Tell the kids - it will be round school in a flash, and just think, they will learn something!