Chickens Wear Prosthetic Dinosaur Tails, For Science
The humble chicken is distantly related to the T. rex. This raises an important scientific question: How could we make chickens walk like they're little dinosaurs? A new study provides the equally important answer! And also video! Researchers from the Universidad de Chile wanted to study dinosaur strutting, but there being few dinosaurs available, stuck a prosthetic tail on the creatures' fowl analog, raising them from birth to adapt for walking in a more dinosaur-like way. As you can see from this video, the chicken was successfully made to walk like a doofus. http://ak.c.ooyala.com/8zeDZrazpotRAgVsS6651Hw0FQSGW12n/Ut_HKthATH4eww8X... Please enable Javascript to watch this video "These results indicate a shift from the standard bird, knee-driven bipedal locomotion to a more hip-driven locomotion, typical of crocodilians (the only other extant archosaur group), mammals, and hypothetically, bipedal non-avian dinosaurs," the researchers write in the study. So although we...