Based On The New PLOSone Paper That I Posted About Earlier - For Those Who Havent Seen, There Is A New

Based on the new PLOSone paper that I posted about earlier - for those who haven’t seen, there is a new study that looks at how chickens walk differently when they have a long artificial tail strapped to their butts. The paper comes with a lovely little video of the control and experimental chickens walking. A regular chicken’s locomotion is more knee-driven, while the posterior weight of an artificial tail makes the animal walk with a hip-driven gait instead.

This study has obvious implications for how non-avian theropods walked, so I could not resist doing a quick (1 hour or so) animation of a dromaeosaur loosely based on Deinonychus doing the dino-walk.

I was supposed to be focusing on other parts of this still-life. Whoops. (Also, this is a relatively small detail on an 18x24 piece of paper.)

Oh! oh! I can ID this! That, my friend, is a frilled lizard. And judging by the way it is displaying, it is NOT HAPPY.

Pusheen the cat making some chemistry.

I look at this and the first phrase that comes to mind is “precious baby dinosaurs”.

secretary bird walking around.

Opening lines diagrammed