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from the why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-racetrack dept.
In a quest to learn how two-legged dinosaurs moved, scientists watched their descendants — birds — run around on a race track. After all, chickens were once carnivorous dinosaurs that stalked the Earth on giant drumsticks.
For all the movies that show dinosaurs chasing after humans, we don't actually know much about what a walking or running dinosaur looked like. Footprints and fossils, for example, can't tell us whether a dino strode or strutted. "They're static records of an animal or its movement," says Peter Bishop, a scientist at the Queensland Museum. For movement, he says, "That's when you've got to study animals that are living today."
Only, there aren't any dinosaurs wandering around anymore. So Bishop and his colleagues turned to the next best thing: birds, the only surviving descendants of two-legged dinos called theropods. Bishop and his colleagues rounded up a dozen species from cute little quail and turkeys to long-legged ostriches and emus. Then they sent the birds walking and running down a racetrack.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:49AM (2 children)
... ostrich eggs Benedict.
"Heart-stoppin' good!" -- Lizard-Man Ibarreta
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:03PM
I don't know about Ostrich Eggs, but apparently Emu Eggs taste good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpgRdv92nU [youtube.com] Just don't follow it up with some nasty egg thing from a convenience store.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:54AM
Giant drumsticks? Oh boy, lead on dear sir, to the era-matching Giant KFC...