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More evidence for the positions of T. rex and Mastodon in the Tree of Life

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From: http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2008-04/aaft-fho041808.php

Now, Chris Organ of Harvard University and the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass and his colleagues have analyzed the proteins in the collagen preserved from that T. rex fossil and another mastodon fossil. They compared these proteins with proteins from 21 modern-day vertebrates, including chickens, ostriches and elephants.
The proteins from T. rex were most similar to those of birds, while those from the mastodon were most similar to elephants. These results strengthen what researchers had predicted from looking at whole fossils from these animals: that dinosaurs share more of their genetic makeup with birds than with other modern-day vertebrates, and that extinct mastodons and modern-day elephants are also closely related.

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Out of curiosity, what does neocreationist science predict about the protein morphology of, say, T. rex? Could it have predicted that T. rex proteins would look most similar to those of birds than to any other living group of animals?
 
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