A new model based on ground-running birds could predict locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs based on their speed and body size, according to a new study. A new model based on ground-running birds could ...

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Locomotion is one of the major energetic costs faced by animals and various strategies have evolved to reduce its cost. Birds use interspersed periods of flapping and gliding to reduce the mechanical ...

The movements of bumblebees and blue whales could not appear more different, but zoologist Graham Taylor of Oxford University finds an underlying similarity. He and his colleagues have discovered that ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In a quest to learn how two-legged dinosaurs moved, scientists watched their descendants — birds — run around on ...

A new study shows a species of tree snake uses an unprecedented form of locomotion in order to climb objects like trees. The brown tree snake loops its body into a lasso around wide, cylindrical ...

A new model based on ground-running birds could predict locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs based on their speed and body size, according to a study published February 21, 2018 in the open-access journal ...