I'm in the Guardian talking about dinosaurs!

Vivian on 20/3/2014 at 14:07

I wrote a thing about dinosaurs, chickens, tails, lack of tails, and walking/running for the Guardian newspaper, have a looksy if you're interested in stuff like that:

(http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds/2014/mar/20/did-losing-their-tails-make-birds-cock-o-the-walk)

(also I get paid more if you click on the link, no pressure)

Viv

nickie on 20/3/2014 at 14:18

Great! Something I understood. :)

Medlar on 20/3/2014 at 15:02

Did I see this picked up by the BBC...

Vivian on 20/3/2014 at 15:04

Probably - I should state that this isn't my research (although it's very strongly related to it), I just got asked to write a blog post about it. It's based on this bit of work (which is PLoS one so anyone can access it!):

(http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088458)

ZylonBane on 20/3/2014 at 16:05

Are you as incoherent there as you are here?

Vivian on 20/3/2014 at 16:16

Click on the link and find out, snark-o-tron.

Hewer on 20/3/2014 at 17:21

Awesome- I love it

Pyrian on 20/3/2014 at 20:55

Okay, but why do their heads bob forwards and back when they walk? :confused:

Vivian on 20/3/2014 at 20:56

See the comments!

nickie on 20/3/2014 at 20:59

Disclaimer: I'm not a person who thinks that everything has to have some kind of useful purpose. But is there a benefit to 'understand[ing] both bird and dinosaur locomotion'?