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A tail as old as time
THE Ig Nobel Prizes have for 25 years honoured achievements that make you laugh, then think; and this year’s batch was no exception.
Bruno Grossi and four colleagues earned a feather in their cap by gluing artificial tails onto the backsides of chickens. They won the Ig Nobel in biology for addressing a timeless palaeontological problem: how did two-legged predatory dinosaurs walk about the Cretaceous world?
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