Unlike birds and insects, bats fly using compliant and slender membrane wings. Membrane wings offer negligible bending stiffness, and thus when they experience aerodynamic load, …
Theropod dinosaurs offer an excellent opportunity for the study of the evolution of locomotion. Since theropods are the other major group of striding bipeds besides …
Most of the over 30,000 species of ray-finned fishes capture food with suction: explosively expanding the mouth cavity to suck in water and prey. This …
Climate change will dramatically alter the structure and function of ecosystems worldwide. Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes are particularly at risk because they must accrete …