The eager reporting sycophants have specifically blurred the tyrannosaurus rex with dinosaurs in general, it seems. Could a 6 year old catch this? Yeah, probably.

It is flawed, then, to say that a chicken is evolved from "dinosaurs", it would be better to try to say that "it" evolved from some particular branch of "dinosaurs". If dinosaurs were at least as uniform in form as "humans", then this might be excusable. The academic/theoretical problem there probably (?) is that that individual ancestor of all barnyard cacklers isn't even known with any degree of defensible certainty. The poor ole too-handy famous tyrannosaurus rex was framed with paternity of a bunch of chickens, for the job.

A strict modern judge would be entitled to throw this case out of court, IMO, because of sloppy "witnesses", and further, any jury member would be entitled to reject the "evidence" due to inconsistency and conflict in the "evolution court".

Evidently, the "three-strikes you're out" rule does not get applied often enough to popularizing evolutionist sycophants broadcasting evolution theories. (grin)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diapsida

"Well known extinct diapsid groups include the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and many more obscure lineages. The classification of most of the early groups is fluid and subject to change."

Heheh. Fluid, eh?

This saga gives me pause, and also satisfaction that one can/should not have to take smug presumptive garden variety evolutionist pronouncements too seriously. ----Maybe the original Science author would even allow some consideration of intelligent design, if asked point blank? Ya think?

Thanks for the help. It appears, then, (intermediate conclusion) that even forthright paleontologists would disagree with the numerous misleading recent headlines, chickens coming in a line from tyrannosaurus rex.

We could have fun following-up on this story, watching for any ready complaints in letters to the editor about the twisting of the meaning of the scientific-tending article.

Summary: Like a cat burglar, some evolutionists creep around in the fossil beds looking for doors that aren't locked and ready suckers to take, swapping eggs between nests, making cuckolds out of upright tyrannosaurus citizens.