When twelve Brett told his aunt that chickens were dinosaurs. She laughed. What a stupid kid.
Brett’s mind was lava hot, hot enough to melt chaos into understanding. After reading that chickens were dinosaurs he looked at the hens in the chicken house who’d peck when he reached for the eggs they were sitting on differently.
True, they were smaller. True, they had feathers. True, they didn’t really run like Tyrannosaurus Rex.
When seventy another nugget of reality melted in his ever hot lava lamp of understanding. What if his old aunt was right? What if they weren’t dinosaurs?
Linked to Carrot Ranch’s August 6th Flash Fiction Challenge. Charli Mills offers the theme of molten lava, real or metaphoric, for the 99-word stories.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
That’s a vey clever, and amusing, use of the prompt Frank.
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Thank you, Peter! I wasn’t sure what to write about molten lava.
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Very clever, Frank.
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Thank you, Robbie!
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Maybe that’s why the chicken crossed the road. (K)
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Ah! I hadn’t thought of that. Thank you, Kerfe!
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I like this Frank, he was right though Frank 💜
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Thank you, Willow!
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A pleasure Frank 💜
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That second guessing! So much to think on for 58 years though. I chuckled at your ‘resolution’.
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It did take him a long time. Thank you!
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Clever flash, Frank! I was just thinking that my daughter’s chickens do run like T-rex! More interesting, is how you caught the bursts of thinking and the length of processing in between thoughts.
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Thank you, Charli!
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Men or Mice
Men Are Mice
Indeed Sharing a Common
Rodent Ancestor 75 MiLLioN
Years ago coming after an Asteroid
Plunging into the Earth MaKinG the
Gulf of Mexico 66 Years ago MaKinG
the Previous Dinosaurs into
Migrating Birds
With Smaller
Eggs
That We
Fry Sunny Side
Up to Reflect the
Star Dust We aRe ALL
Star Seed and FLoWeRS From
Crucible Fires of Super Nova Star
FLoWeR Seed Gaseous Dust All of Us Now
So At Least
We KNoW
Now Who
Came First
The Chicken or
Egg inDeed Dancing
With the Stars in Big Bang Song Ways..;)
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I am beginning to think Biblical creation makes more sense than the Big Bang with everything popping out of nothing and we being in a multiverse of random universes. Thanks, Fred!
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SMiLes True Some
Folks See the Depth
Of ‘The Story’
Alpha
Thru
Omega
Is Both DusT
Us And All With SMiLes
For
Real
Love Breathes
Eternally NoW iN
me too Eternally
Gift Now
Enough
For
Me Worth
Doing This
God Of Love
Now For it is Still
True Science Has
No Tool Worthy
Of Observing
And Measuring
This Eternal God
LoVE NoW Within
Science
Will
ALWaYS
Be God BLinD
This Way and
Finally Is Grown
Up Enough
Out of
Diapers
To Admit
What Science
Is Blind to ‘See’ Now
Indeed the Irony
i Find
Literally
Delicious
The Real
Theism
Of Love
That No
Disbeliever
Will Ever Prove
Does Not Exist
While Art of Love Does🎨
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Oops Little Professor
Mistake make that 66 MiLLioN Years..;)
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Thank you, Fred!
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😁🙌
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That’s pretty interesting – the link between dinos and chicken. I just tried out a project using instructions online where a collagen protein sequence was identified and when we searched against the protein databases, the closest hit was the humble chicken (Gallus gallus) and next it was the Norway Rat! I documented the steps in my post https://geneinquirer.com/2020/12/15/in-search-of-dinosaurs-cousins-via-dna/.
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Interesting link between the chicken, the rat and that dinosaur. Thank you, Chris!
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