Re: K/T survivors

[jdharris@csn.net (Jerry D. Harris)]

>While on the subject of birds, can someone please give me the proper name
>for chicken. The novelty of telling the people I live with "I'm making
>dinosaur soup" is wearing rather thin.

        The genus of the chicken is _Gallus_; the domestic chicken is
_Gallus domesticus_.


Jerry D. Harris
Denver Museum of Natural History
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Denver, CO  80205
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Overheard in the Denver Museum's
old Fossil Mammal Hall, from a mother
to her daugher:

"See there?  That's the camel-dinosaur, and
the horse-dinosaur, and the elephant-dinosaur..."

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