In fish, the task of eating in an aquatic medium has resulted in a diversity of complex feeding mechanisms. My dissertation work investigated a selection …
This thesis explores the kinematic (motion) interaction between foot and ground in archosaurs (birds, crocodiles, dinosaurs, and pterosaurs). The function and morphology (shape) of the …
Slithering, sprinting, swimming, soaring – virtually all vertebrate animal motion relies on the joints that hold our skeletons together. However, despite orthopedists’ ability to repair …
Fossilized tracks provide the only direct records of the locomotion of extinct taxa. As such, fossil hominin footprints have the potential to provide insight into …