What do a leaping lizard, a Velociraptor and a tiny robot ... The model showed that the dinosaur would have outperformed the lizard. A similar movement of its tail would have corrected the angle ...

A new study of how lizards use their tails when leaping through the trees shows ... "Inspiration from lizard tails will likely lead to far more agile search-and-rescue robots, as well as ones ...

In their study, Libby et al. found that if a lizard needed to tilt its trunk 'nose-up' during a jump to ensure that it landed correctly on a vertical surface, it bent its long, slender tail ...

Researchers conduct their leaping lizard experiment ... comprehensive and compelling news and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing animals to health ...

A leaping lizard uses its tail to correct ungainly maneuvers, akin to a tightrope walker with a balancing pole. Researchers have confirmed a 40-year-old hypothesis regarding dinosaur acrobatics by ...

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Researchers have found the fossilized remains of a new species of lizard inside the stomach of a small flying dinosaur known as a microraptor. Known as Indrasaurus wangi (after an ancient Hindu ...

An amber-encased fossil seemed to be a hummingbird-size dinosaur. Now it’s been reclassified as a big-eyed lizard. Some 99 million years ago in what's now Myanmar, tree resin oozes over and ...

Leaping lizards have a message for robots ... Full, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology. "Inspiration from lizard tails will likely lead to far more agile search-and-rescue robots ...