Chickens Wear Prosthetic Dinosaur Tails, For ScienceThe humble chicken is distantly related to the  T. rex.  This raises an important scientific question: How could we make chickens walk like they're little dinosaurs? A new study provides the equally important answer! And also video!  Researchers from  the Universidad de Chile wanted to study dinosaur strutting but there being few dinosaurs available stuck a prosthetic tail on the creatures' fowl analog raising them from birth to adapt for walking in a more  dinosaur-like way. As you can see from this video the chicken was successfully made to walk like a doofus.These results indicate a shift from the standard bird knee-driven bipedal locomotion to a more hip-driven locomotion typical of crocodilians (the only other extant archosaur group) mammals and hypothetically bipedal non-avian dinosaurs the researchers write in the study. So although we don't quite have any dinosaurs to double check the scientists are pretty sure this is a fair representation of how dinos strolled.One step closer to a  Jurassic Park  petting zoo. Onward science.  [PLOS ONE via io9]