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Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion

Birds still share many traits with their dinosaur ancestors, making them the best living group to reconstruct certain aspects of non-avian theropod biology. Bipedal, digitigrade locomotion and parasagittal hindlimb movement are some of those inherited traits. Living birds, however, maintain an unusu...

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Autores principales: Grossi, Bruno, Iriarte-Díaz, José, Larach, Omar, Canals, Mauricio, Vásquez, Rodrigo A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3915051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24505491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088458