Tag: wings
Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems
Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered.
Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.
Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust
There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down.
Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils
Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions.
Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris.