Palaeontologists have claimed that a species of bird-like dinosaur acted like Las Vegas showgirls by wiggling tail feathers to attract mates.
A new research, by the University of Alberta, has found that Oviraptor dinosaurs had a fan of feathers, similar to the fan of a flamenco dancer, attached to a flexible tail, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
They may have flashed these feathers to attract attention in a similar way to the modern-day peacock -- or a Las Vegas showgirl, say the palaeontologists who found that Oviraptors, which lived 75 million years ago, had tails with a peculiarly dense arrangement of bones.
"The tail of an Oviraptor by comparison to the tail of most other dinosaurs is pretty darn short," Scott Persons, who led the research team, said.
He added: "But it's not short in that it's missing a whole bunch of vertebrae, it's short in that the individual vertebra within the tail themselves are sort of squashed together. So they're densely packed.
"This dense arrangement of bones would have made the tails flexible."
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