TIL: In 2014, scientists trying to understand dinosaur movement decided to strap artificial dinosaur tails to chickens to change their center of mass. Chickens raised with these tails demonstrated a more hip-driven movement associated with dinosaurs than the knee-driven movement of chickens. User KittonCorpus, in the Interesting_Shit subreddit, 18 May 2020
TIL: In 2014, scientists trying to understand dinosaur movement decided to strap artificial dinosaur tails to chickens to change their center of mass. Chickens raised with these tails demonstrated a more hip-driven movement associated with dinosaurs than the knee-driven movement of chickens. User OvidPerl, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 14 May 2020
TIL when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken walks in a manner similar to how dinosaurs are thought to have walked User ShakespeareYo, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 05 May 2017
TIL 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. User warm_fuzzy_feeling, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 19 Sep 2015
How did dinosaurs walk? Stick a plunger on a chicken butt to find out! User flyingmouse, in the biomechanics: with an emphasis on comparative studies subreddit, 18 Mar 2014
[Article] PLOS ONE: Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion User reidhoch, in the Dinosaurs: They Rock! subreddit, 07 Feb 2014
Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion User kironcmukherjee, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 06 Feb 2014