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Posted January 4, 2013 12:00 am.

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EDMONTON – A University of Alberta scientist has found that some dinosaurs could really shake a tail feather.

Scott Persons says that far from being the lumbering, cold-blooded beasts of Hollywood myth, at least one species of the long-extinct animals had strong, flexible tails tipped with large fans of feathers “built for flaunting.”

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