User blog comment:Matt Hadick/Ultimate Kaiju Battle Round 2/@comment-3490570-20130614223012/@comment-3148529-20130614233736

The ultimate weakness of the Basilisk is the crowing of a rooster, correct?

Guess what roosters and chickens evolved from.

You could argue, of course, that birds evolved from just one dinosaur descendant, and this would be true in many respects. This "T. rex is a big chicken" shtick started a while ago and for no good reason that I can tell. But turn your attention to the B. rex, a Tyrannosaurus bone found in Montana a couple years ago. It was discovered with soft tissue in the bone marrow, and in addition to the presence of possible fossilized blood cells, it was discovered that the collagen most closely matches that of a chicken's. Literally.

The Jurassic Park T. rex got a bit of frog inserted into its DNA, but it is still extremely bird-like and indeed chicken-like. One roar from the Rex and the Basilisk is down for the count.