Teeth Chicken and Toothed Chickens

Urban Dictionary defines teeth chicken as "Any particle of food that you happen to pick out of your teeth many hours after the meal's over. Named so because the particle is usually white and has a chicken meat-like texture."


CNN reports that scientists have grown chicken embryos with teeth. Cells were transplanted from mice into the chicken embryos -- called chimeras.

"Basically, this tells you that the bird still has the genetic information required to initiate tooth development, if their are cells capable of responding to it," Professor Sharpe, from King's College, London, told The Times newspaper Wednesday.

Discovery Channel News reports that these same scientists have gone a step further inducing chickens born with a mutated gene associated with tooth development into growing functioning teeth.