Chickens and turkeys 'closer to dinosaur ancestors' than other birds

Christopher Pilny for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Apparently the annoying kid from Jurassic Park was right: Velociraptors were "six-foot turkeys." According to research out of the University of Kent, chickens and turkeys are more closely related to their ancient avian ancestor–considered to be a feathered dinosaur–than other bird species. Conducted by Professor Darren Griffin and…