According to a new paper, scientists have actually found protein in the form of collagen in a TRex fossil. And upon analysis of these ancient proteins, they have been found to most closly resemble proteins found in the modern chicken....
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The analysis shows that T-rex collagen makeup is almost identical to that of a modern chicken - this corroborates a huge body of evidence from the fossil record that demonstrates birds are descended from meat-eating dinosaurs," said Angela Milner, the associate keeper of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London. "So, it is very satisfying that the molecules have provided a positive test for the morphology."
While not DNA, proteins have certain specific characteristics that can be used to trace ancestry like DNA, and in this case the results seems to be quite certain: birds are descendants of a specific branch of the dinosauria (as predicted by the fossil record).
I'm curious as to how creationists will dispute this new evidence... the probababilty of a theory being correct is made much greater when very different strands of evidence lead to the same conclusion.
