Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

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1. This video alone pretty much proves evolution. nt

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2. Love Jack!

I think he's on to something. Gotta keep those 6th graders interested. Feed their brains with facts and grow reality based, informed adults.

I enjoyed this, thanks!

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3. Scientists have put a fake tail on a chicken to change the way it walks

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-strap-fake-dinosaur-tail-on-chickens-to-discover-how-trex-walked-video-9117384.html

Despite decades of study, scientists are still not entirely sure how exactly bipedal dinosaurs such as the T-rex moved and stood.

In an attempt to solve the mystery, researchers from the University of Chile and the University of Chicago, took the notion that birds inherited the way they move from their dinosaur ancestors and reared a number of chickens wearing artificial tails from birth.

Looking like a bizarre school science experiment, the prosthetic limbs were made from a wooden stick and modeling clay and attached to the birds by velcro fasteners. . . .

"Here we show that, by experimentally manipulating the location of the centre of mass in living birds, it is possible to recreate limb posture and kinematics inferred for extinct bipedal dinosaurs," the research, published in the Plos One journal, said.

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4. I've always said that chickens were miniature velociraptors.

If you ever watched them go after bugs and small critters.