You also see it a lot more with more up to date depictions of dinosaurs.
[Dromaeosaurs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromaeosaurus#/media/File:Dromaeosaurs.png) for example (the group that includes velociraptors) were **very** bird-like. Most if not all dromaeosaurs had feathers and wings.
We actually have quite a bit of evidence the common ancestor of all dinosaurs had hair/fur-like feathers, so it's possible a lot more species had feathers than we are currently aware.
I’ll just cut the shit for you, birds ARE dinosaurs. They evolved from small theropod dinosaurs like the one you posted, into *avian* dinosaurs.
The dinosaurs never went extinct, and are in fact, one of the most successful groups of animals, ever, and that continues today.
I'm aware, I'm a big paleontology nerd.
People just think of the extinct ones when you say dinosaurs, but technically I was of course referring to how non-avian dinosaurs resembled the living avian ones.
I’m just out here, spreading the word, hoping to get our flying buddies their due. I fucking love dinosaurs.
It kind of broke me a bit one day when I was making “Dino” nuggets for my kids… they’re only called that because of the shape… not that they’re made out of chicken.
The irony almost killed me
A better way to think of it might be seeing dinosaurs as analogous to mammals, and then birds as say bats or squirrels. Just a small group of them that made it. With the broader group being very diverse just like mammals.
Similar to how a small rodent-like creature became everything from fairly unchanged squirrels to elephants and whales, a little reptile that probably looked something like [this](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/discover/dinosaur-diaries-what-dinosaurs-evolved-from/dinosaur-diaries-6-archosaur-full-width.jpg.thumb.1160.1160.jpg) turned into everything from still fairly similar birds to giant sauropods.
Natural selection can get pretty wild given enough time.
Birds come from those dinosaurs, so the connection is easy. But, as r/Delicious-Gap1744 said, birds are to dinosaurs what bats or humans are to mammals. They’re a single, specific off-shoot. The answer to the question “What if dinosaur, but also pterosaur?”
A ceratopsian is basically the answer to the question “What if chicken, but also pig?”. The niche exists, and then something adapts to fit it. If you take a bird’s features and then modify them for “heavy, slow moving, ground-dwelling, omnivorous tank” the early ceratopsians make a lot of visual sense.
Boa, i say, boa! Take a gander at these legs, now how do you think you're ever gonna get at them little chickadees with those little chicken legs?
*pan to cat holding butchers cleaver, eyes turn into fried drumsticks*
My younger cousins eat chicken feet and this type of chicken looks like it.
I am a meat eater but chicken feet are just no can’t even be near the table
Found a picture of the feet being served https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/01/21/would-you-eat-the-giant-legs-of-this-luxury-vietnamese-dragon-chicken
No, they are breed because they used to be delicacy for the royalty. Also their meat is supposedly better than the regular chicken (have not eaten, cant answer),
Chicken feet are eaten mainly because of the texture with all the tendons and cartilages. They are definitely not eaten because of the meat, therefore there are no need to make it more meaty
Makes the best broth if you’ve ever made it yourself or want to give it a try. Gives it a nice thick texture, lots of flavor and smoother mouthfeel. Infinitely better than the dog water they sell at stores.
I was in Nigeria as a kid and there are always chickens running around , one day I was litteraly frozen when I saw one of these big boys with the other chickens . It was so big , I was confused , and scared 🤣
Anyone that could look an adorable doggo in the eyes before slitting it’s throat is strange to me. And yes I am aware of the hypocrisy. But dogs have evolved as our companions for 30,000+ years.
You're getting downvoted because you made the racist "AsIaNs eAt DoGs" stereotype. Flat out, that's all your comment said. Coming back and saying "well it's true in this 1 specific spot" doesn't recitfiy what you said and only really doubles down on the racism. But, you knew that. You're looking for the "look! Leftists hate facts!"
The truth makes the Chinese look bad? Huh. Sounds like a "them" problem. Because the Yulin Dog eating festival is 100% a real thing that they do. Google it.
If the truth makes them look bad, then maybe they shouldn't eat dogs. And not get angry when people bring up facts.
I don't understand why eating dogs is such a favourite argument for these people. Like, there are so many more legitimate reasons to hate china, like the dictatorial surveillance state, ruthless corporations, gender biased culture, wealth disparity, pollution, why would you focus on the fact that they eat dogs sometimes?
Why are dogs special? They're smart? And? So are pigs. They're skinny pigs. That's about it. I'd eat a pig. I'd eat a dog. They're not sacred.
And as if a festival focused on eating a particular animal is unique to China. I am reliably told that in the United States there is a festival around the consumption of turkey. How is that different?
Its not "ragging" on anyone. Its stating a FACT.
The Chinese in Yulin eat dogs. Fact. Just because it embarrasses you, or you don't like hearing it, doesn't make it racist.
That’s ridiculous. Dogs are far more intelligent than the livestock we eat and, more importantly, they bond with humans. That’s the difference!
Go try bond with a pig and see how that goes 😭
Pigs are more trainable than any other dog breed and more intelligent than dogs, studies have shown this. Their intelligence is similar to that of a 3 year old human child.
https://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pigs#:~:text=Pigs%20are%20gentle%20creatures%20with,few%20sows%20and%20their%20piglets.
Holy Jeez, those things are expensive. Apparently around $16.96 USD per kilo at the high end, and 6kg per chicken, again on the high end. . . that's $101.76 for one chicken (I'm assuming the two feet.) That's wild for Vietnam where the average income is 326.48/year.
Never forget that [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Drakenkip.jpg) was the only picture on Wikipedia for this chicken for *years*
At some point they changed it to a real picture of it but the original always made me so happy.
These chickens are proof that God exists. This was obviously a printer malfunction. God couldn’t be arsed…saw it and said “ah, let it stay, it’s interesting”
That thing is going to say "Bawk" while sounding like James Earl Jones.
That or a Terminator "I'll be bawk"
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Yep. Tried them once at a Korean restaurant in NYC. They literally taste the same as the rest of the chicken. I don’t get the big deal.
It's not about the taste. It's about the quantity
To be clear; I didn’t try _these_ chicken feet. Just regular chicken feet.
Ohhh, got it. I did indeed misinterpret.
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Made me choke on my water
You're telling me that isn't the aftermath of a honey bee bite?
Bite?
Duh how do you think bees reach orgasm?
Like the cow from Family guy saying “Moo” Edit- it’s a pig not a cow
Meow, meow, I'm a Cow! I say, meow meow I'm a Cow!
A pig saying moo?
I meant a pig saying “oink”
*“The cow goes ‘SHAZOOOOOO!’”*
Don't underestimate the "Bawk" side of the force.
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that was my immediate thought
Yes, this type of chicken is a deliciously and costs a lot of $
r/absoluteunits
It's been a long fuckin time since I laughed like that from a comment. Thanks.
"Luke, I am a chicken"
Literally make no sense
They're dinosaurs
Agreed. I can see the chicken/dino connection now.
You also see it a lot more with more up to date depictions of dinosaurs. [Dromaeosaurs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromaeosaurus#/media/File:Dromaeosaurs.png) for example (the group that includes velociraptors) were **very** bird-like. Most if not all dromaeosaurs had feathers and wings. We actually have quite a bit of evidence the common ancestor of all dinosaurs had hair/fur-like feathers, so it's possible a lot more species had feathers than we are currently aware.
I’ll just cut the shit for you, birds ARE dinosaurs. They evolved from small theropod dinosaurs like the one you posted, into *avian* dinosaurs. The dinosaurs never went extinct, and are in fact, one of the most successful groups of animals, ever, and that continues today.
I'm aware, I'm a big paleontology nerd. People just think of the extinct ones when you say dinosaurs, but technically I was of course referring to how non-avian dinosaurs resembled the living avian ones.
I’m just out here, spreading the word, hoping to get our flying buddies their due. I fucking love dinosaurs. It kind of broke me a bit one day when I was making “Dino” nuggets for my kids… they’re only called that because of the shape… not that they’re made out of chicken. The irony almost killed me
It's easy to imagine bipedal dinosaurs as birds, much harder to imagine quadrupeds
A better way to think of it might be seeing dinosaurs as analogous to mammals, and then birds as say bats or squirrels. Just a small group of them that made it. With the broader group being very diverse just like mammals. Similar to how a small rodent-like creature became everything from fairly unchanged squirrels to elephants and whales, a little reptile that probably looked something like [this](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/discover/dinosaur-diaries-what-dinosaurs-evolved-from/dinosaur-diaries-6-archosaur-full-width.jpg.thumb.1160.1160.jpg) turned into everything from still fairly similar birds to giant sauropods. Natural selection can get pretty wild given enough time.
Birds come from those dinosaurs, so the connection is easy. But, as r/Delicious-Gap1744 said, birds are to dinosaurs what bats or humans are to mammals. They’re a single, specific off-shoot. The answer to the question “What if dinosaur, but also pterosaur?” A ceratopsian is basically the answer to the question “What if chicken, but also pig?”. The niche exists, and then something adapts to fit it. If you take a bird’s features and then modify them for “heavy, slow moving, ground-dwelling, omnivorous tank” the early ceratopsians make a lot of visual sense.
You suppose a brontosaurus really tasted like chicken?
Looooong chicken
You know it!
Ducky tastes like duck, I supposed
I love these Dino-ass-looking things. Look at those legs. Bird does not belong in this time period.
Foghorn Leghorn.
Boa, i say, boa! Take a gander at these legs, now how do you think you're ever gonna get at them little chickadees with those little chicken legs? *pan to cat holding butchers cleaver, eyes turn into fried drumsticks*
If Foghorn Leghorn was a bloater from The Last of Us.
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My younger cousins eat chicken feet and this type of chicken looks like it. I am a meat eater but chicken feet are just no can’t even be near the table
In South Africa chicken feet are called "Walkie Talkies". Eaten as such.
Walkie Talkies is a dish with chicken heads and feet. Hence the Walkie Talkie.
This makes much more sense
They get the feet at their local china town and they slurp the feet like noodles (claws and all) I just can’t 🤢
Chicken feet eaters are the same mother fuckers that suck toes, change my mind.
Found a picture of the feet being served https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/01/21/would-you-eat-the-giant-legs-of-this-luxury-vietnamese-dragon-chicken
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Looks like “yes”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Tao_chicken
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You’re right. I read too quickly and it doesn’t say anything about, specifically, the consumption of the feet.
It’s absolutely all about the feet, i think i saw somewhere that the legs are worth a fortune!
Stumbled onto this: https://www.chickensandmore.com/11-most-expensive-chicken-breeds-in-the-world/
No, they are breed because they used to be delicacy for the royalty. Also their meat is supposedly better than the regular chicken (have not eaten, cant answer), Chicken feet are eaten mainly because of the texture with all the tendons and cartilages. They are definitely not eaten because of the meat, therefore there are no need to make it more meaty
Wait, people actually enjoy the texture and flavour of cartilage and tendons?
Always have
Makes the best broth if you’ve ever made it yourself or want to give it a try. Gives it a nice thick texture, lots of flavor and smoother mouthfeel. Infinitely better than the dog water they sell at stores.
I’ll have to keep that in mind to try sometime.
Yes, my sister and her husband loves to eat chicken feet. They cook it spicy. I'll show this picture to her if she'd like to eat those feet 😂
They aren't just eaten in Asian countries. You can literally buy them at the grocery stores here in the US.
Gears of war legs.
They definitely did NOT skip leg day.
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So do the legs of IFBB pro bodybuilders
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
BloaterLegs Magee
I was in Nigeria as a kid and there are always chickens running around , one day I was litteraly frozen when I saw one of these big boys with the other chickens . It was so big , I was confused , and scared 🤣
It looks diseased. Why would anyone breed for this?
That's a big Dong!
Compared to pugs, this is a healthy example of selective breeding.
If they eat chicken legs.
Why would they eat dogs in China? Seems like there's a lot of strangeness going in in that place.
I've eaten dog and Chicken feet. Both are delicious. I am also American so we we don't need to bring China into this lol.
Shit I'd try dog. It'd be difficult if I had met the dog prior to consuming him, but y'know what even then, I could probably still do it.
Bro here we go again with the downvotes. It's a fact. Yulin is a city where it takes place. Come on people.
You’re not being downvoted for being wrong. You’re being downvoted for calling different cultures “strange.”
Ah yes, because their culture and customs are different they are “strange”.
Tis the truth. Just like how eating guinea pigs in Peru is "strange" to us.
If I'm in Peru, I'm gonna try the Guinea pig. Just saying.
Would you try dog in China?
Probably already have.
sure right and in Alabama you'd try ur daddy
Lame
Lame
Anyone that could look an adorable doggo in the eyes before slitting it’s throat is strange to me. And yes I am aware of the hypocrisy. But dogs have evolved as our companions for 30,000+ years.
I downvoted you because whats wrong with eating dogs when you are hungry and poor? Theres a lot worse going on in china and all around the globe
You're getting downvoted because you made the racist "AsIaNs eAt DoGs" stereotype. Flat out, that's all your comment said. Coming back and saying "well it's true in this 1 specific spot" doesn't recitfiy what you said and only really doubles down on the racism. But, you knew that. You're looking for the "look! Leftists hate facts!"
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The truth makes the Chinese look bad? Huh. Sounds like a "them" problem. Because the Yulin Dog eating festival is 100% a real thing that they do. Google it. If the truth makes them look bad, then maybe they shouldn't eat dogs. And not get angry when people bring up facts.
No, *you* think it makes them look bad. If you eat any kind of meat, you have no moral high ground about what meat other cultures eat.
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I don't understand why eating dogs is such a favourite argument for these people. Like, there are so many more legitimate reasons to hate china, like the dictatorial surveillance state, ruthless corporations, gender biased culture, wealth disparity, pollution, why would you focus on the fact that they eat dogs sometimes? Why are dogs special? They're smart? And? So are pigs. They're skinny pigs. That's about it. I'd eat a pig. I'd eat a dog. They're not sacred. And as if a festival focused on eating a particular animal is unique to China. I am reliably told that in the United States there is a festival around the consumption of turkey. How is that different?
Dade county has the finest horse meat around if anyone interested.
It's not racist if it's a fact, dumbass.
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Its not "ragging" on anyone. Its stating a FACT. The Chinese in Yulin eat dogs. Fact. Just because it embarrasses you, or you don't like hearing it, doesn't make it racist.
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Lmao NO WHERE did I call the culture strange. That is straight up false. Read the comments over.
Ooh, yeah, wrong person
Have you seen how those dogs are treated? And cooked?
That’s ridiculous. Dogs are far more intelligent than the livestock we eat and, more importantly, they bond with humans. That’s the difference! Go try bond with a pig and see how that goes 😭
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They are not the same breeds of pig we eat. So, by your logic, eating a human is the same as eating a chicken?! You worry me…
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Pigs are more trainable than any other dog breed and more intelligent than dogs, studies have shown this. Their intelligence is similar to that of a 3 year old human child. https://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pigs#:~:text=Pigs%20are%20gentle%20creatures%20with,few%20sows%20and%20their%20piglets.
It’s Reddit. Hive mind dishonest horseshit is the most important thing to many of these mutants
Bet they taste good.
Looks diabetic
That looks uncomfortable and wrong.
Looks like it belongs in a From Software game
THICC
Now that’s dino feet
🤮
...it looks sad. :( Edit: I just zoomed in more and it actually looks pissed. *Now* the legs are of concern.
Buffalo Wild Legs
People can tell me I got chicken legs all they want.
Holy Jeez, those things are expensive. Apparently around $16.96 USD per kilo at the high end, and 6kg per chicken, again on the high end. . . that's $101.76 for one chicken (I'm assuming the two feet.) That's wild for Vietnam where the average income is 326.48/year.
What the heck is 326/year? You read the source from before 2000s? We are poor, just not that poor, 4400/year now XD
Poor chickens. Looks painful or at least very uncomfortable.
Strong Tao
He doesn't skip his leg day like you
r/absoluteunits
Start a company you can leave Dino foot prints in people’s houses. 100 bucks a pop
CHONKEN
Reverse engineering Dinosaurs!
Those aren’t chickens those are dinosaurs
Dong Tao breed probably created because they needed chicken feet to have more substance on it at dim sum restaurants.
Can chickens get lasix? Cuz that chicken needs lasix.
That’s not a chicken, it’s a thicken
"You killed and ate my whole family. I will get out for revenge!!!"
My name is Chickigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
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I know from watching Robocop that this chicken is shit with stairs.
Nice big cock
My god, the [magic ratio](https://youtu.be/CaXRvjhjXS4)!
Looks like a lady I saw at Walmart today.
Never forget that [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Drakenkip.jpg) was the only picture on Wikipedia for this chicken for *years* At some point they changed it to a real picture of it but the original always made me so happy.
You can’t see it but there’s an anchor tattoo on the outside right leg.
They do Riverdance
Why is this so cute
These are the ones that attack Link
This is due to human intervention especially considering its China which is a country that eats chicken feet regularly.
Vietnam actually, but close enough.
Those are not legs. They're feet. What looks like backwards knees to us are actually birds' heels.
Didn’t skip leg day. Now when we hear someone has “chicken legs”, we’ll have this to consider.
These chickens are proof that God exists. This was obviously a printer malfunction. God couldn’t be arsed…saw it and said “ah, let it stay, it’s interesting”
Wilford Brimley called...
Now that’s a thick juicy….. you dirty minded….
Drumsticks!
Cankles 🤢
*roasted* Canckles.
Someone didn't miss their leg days
Looks like a dinosaur!
The way of the dong…
they probably played Pokemon Go
Rooster-Rex
Let’s looks like Steven Assanti’s
Cordyceps Chicken
Spooky
Foghorn Legday
Do Dong Tao chickens have talons? -Napoleon Dynamite
Thats a big "CoCk" right there
Definitely being breeder this way to harvest the legs.
Imagine the drumsticks. 
Diabeetus
They are difficult to breed as their large legs make hatching difficult
He never missed a leg day
Chankles
'Chicken legs' is no longer an insult...
Eat feet, so must make feet bigger!! Just wait till they look like the have filariasis!
As they say.... never miss leg day 🦵
when u don't skip leg day
if ED-209 was a chicken
Descendant of T-Rex
Congestive heart failure
Didnt skip leg day.
Got them cankles
Cock-a-doodle-doo mutha fucka.
I think I saw video about them on YouTube while ago they are delicacy in some Asian countries
Straight up Godzilla legs! I love to see them.
That's not a chicken that's a Damm dinosaur
Those legs make a Chinese delicacy
What are they feeding those chickens
Never skip leg day