Smart engineering in the mid-carboniferous: How well could palaeozoic dragonflies fly?

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5389, 1998, Pages 749-751

  Wootton, R J ^a   Kukalova Peck J ^b   Newman, D J S ^a   Muzon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Instituto de Limnologia Dr Raul A Ringuelet   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY; EVOLUTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARGENTINA;

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); CARBONIFEROUS; INSECTA; ODONATOIDEA;

EID: 0032561495     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5389.749     Document Type: Article

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