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Monday, March 24, 2014

Suddenly The Chook Seems Eminently Manageable



It stood 11.5-feet tall and tipped the scales at perhaps 500 pounds, with the body of a raptor, the head of a chicken and the crest of a cassowary; it sported big sharp claws and, probably, feathers.

 I surely wouldn't want this turning up at the kitchen door each morning. Thank goodness I missed it by a mere 66 millions years:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/03/20/500-pound-chicken-from-hell-dinosaur-once-roamed-north-america/
 

2 comments:

parlance said...

It all depends on your point of view. To a worm, your chook probably seems a bit scary...

Gitte Christensen said...


Ha! True! She would seem like an Argentinosaurus, I suppose - I think that's the biggest of the dinos.