Superfast muscles in songbirds

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 04:14 in Biology & Nature

Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye - placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers found.

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