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Dinosaur paper wins Ig Nobel Prize!



"Walking Like Dinosaurs" -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/18/ig-nobel-awards-for-silly-science-rock-harvard-as-only-they-can/

BIOLOGY PRIZE — Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A.
Vásquez, José Iriarte-Díaz, for observing that when you attach a
weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in
a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have
walked.
REFERENCE: “Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails
Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion,” Bruno Grossi, José
Iriarte-Díaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, PLoS
ONE, 2014.

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