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Re: Dinosaur paper wins Ig Nobel Prize!



The paper was also discussed on the dinosaur mailing list on February 6 and 7, 
2014 after its original publication. -- Jeff Hecht 


On Sep 19, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Mary Kirkaldy <mkirkaldy@gmail.com> wrote:

> "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.
> 
> Mary
> --
>