48.26 x 60.96 cm. (19 x 24 in.) ...

Plesiosaurs once roamed Earth’s waters, using four equal flippers to propel their elongated bodies through the water. Fossils ...

In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of ...

The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...

Combined, they contribute to the total energy expenditure of movement. Fish, however, have a greater need to optimize their locomotion than for animals moving in the air or on land. This is because ...

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution ...

Once inside vertically confined spaces, cockroaches still locomoted rapidly at twenty body lengths per second using an unexplored mode of locomotion – body-friction legged crawling. Using materials ...

While dinosaurs roamed the land, plesiosaurs were the rulers of the seas for millions of years.  Plesiosaurs were ...

18 x 23.5 in. (45.7 x 59.7 cm.) Inscribed with Muybridge’s letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date. Stamped on reverse with Museum of Edinburgh ‘Science and Art’ stamp.

Scientists recreated plesiosaur swimming with a robotic model, revealing how these ancient sea reptiles adapted their flipper ...

A research group may have unraveled the mystery behind the locomotion of the ancient marine reptile, the plesiosaur, by ...