Opening Lines Diagrammed

Opening lines diagrammed

how does moses make his own beer?

no roboclock yet, but we did print a klein bottle

[dl the thing]

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.

What eats termites, smears its butt-juice on things, and defends itself with the power of floof?

We’ve gotta talk about the aardwolf (Proteles cristata).

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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.