Using physical models to study the gliding performance of extinct animals

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1002-1018

  Koehl, M A R ^a   Evangelista, Dennis ^a   Yang, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; BODY SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FOSSIL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; WIND;

EID: 82255181340     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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