Chicken grows teeth

We're Sorry - Scientific AmericanThis article describes how researchers using chicken embryos accidentaly discovered (in a mutant embryo that didn't hatch) small teeth similar to those of an aligator. The teeth are homologus to baby aligator teeth.This mutation is due to an 80-million year old reptile gene (found in living reptiles as well). The question is, why would a chicken have this gene?How could this be possible from a creationist perspective?I would imagine chickens are part of the bird 'kind', so why does it have the genes for teeth of the reptile 'kind'?This message has been edited by Yaro, 02-23-2006 01:33 PM

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