Kentucky Fried Chompers

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The Colonel is rolling in his grave right now because he could have been at the helm of the biggest avian army in the world. And now Frank Purdue's gone too. They are like Professor X and Magneto, pitted against one another in a bid for total chicken domination. instead, we've got some crazy scientists growing chickens with teeth and I just know a few are going to get loose. And I just know they are going to be flapping their gums right in front of my precious little eyeballs.

Surprise! Chickens Can Grow Teeth
"Chicken will grow teeth when pigs can fly.

Well, better start searching the skies for flying pork—scientists have discovered a mutant chicken with a full set of crocodile-like chompers.

Researchers also tweaked the genes of normal chickens to grow teeth.

The mutant chick, called Talpid, also had severe limb defects and died before hatching.

Although it was discovered 50 years ago, no one had ever examined its mouth.

"What we discovered were teeth similar to those of crocodiles—not surprising as birds are the closest living relatives of the reptile," said Mark Ferguson of the University of Manchester.

The finding made scientists curious whether healthy chickens still possessed the 80-million-year-old genetic pathway for producing teeth.

By making a few changes to the expression of certain molecules in the pathway, Ferguson and his team were able to induce tooth growth in normal chickens.

This is good news for hockey players. A direct application of this research, Ferguson said, could be re-growing teeth in people who have lost them through accident or disease."

Those crazy Canadians.