Leapin' lizards! Man-eaters quite acrobatic
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Meat-eating dinosaurs such as Velociraptor may have been quite the acrobats, using their tails to land aerial maneuvers safely, say scientists studying today's leaping lizards. Robots built as part of this work could inspire a new generation of search-and-rescue droids, they add.