Joe Staton’s classic article “Tastes Like Chicken” was the subject of a question on the September 25, 2013 edition of the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” TV program:
The question posed to contestants on that program: “Since the animals are thought to be distant relatives, biology professor Joe Staton once wrote ‘chances are that T. rex tastes like’ what?”
Joe Staton is Associate Professor of Biology/Marine Science at the University of South Carolina. His article, written when he was at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, was published in 1998 in the Annals of Improbable Research.
BONUS VIDEO (only vaguely related — thanks to Jennifer Oullette and Io9 for bringing it to our attention):
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