New research on the steps of T-Rex tyrant dinosaurs

Scientists have added a fake tail to the chicken to learn about the movement of this carnivorous dinosaur.

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Recently, scientists from the University of Chile, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago conducted a research to create a fake tail for chickens to simulate the way of Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) dinosaurs.

T-Rex is known to be a live-eating, two-legged dinosaur, with a large skull and a heavy tail. The front limbs of the tyrant dinosaur are small, weak, unbalanced with large, strong limbs.

To conduct this experiment, the scientists attached a long, relatively heavy tail, made from a wooden stick and a clay model, attached to the back of the chicken from an early age. Experts always note that keeping the tail accounts for 15% of the chicken's body weight, and will replace the tail as they grow up day by day.

The picture shows, the difference in the structure of leg bones when walking of normal chickens (expressed in gray) and chickens with "dinosaur" tail (orange).

Accordingly, the researchers discovered that chickens with "fake" tails will take steps other than the normal chicken. The chickens with "fake tails" will stand more on the femur with the knee sticking out more. This will make the hips of the chickens move to help guide more steps.

Scientists said: "This study is not perfect, but it will partly open to us the direction of the study and movement of dinosaur energy. This will provide us with information on the relationship between form and bone function during dinosaur evolution ".

The study was published in PLoS ONE magazine.