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How Orobates walked

Started by Halichoeres, January 18, 2019, 04:35:01 PM

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January 18, 2019, 04:35:01 PM
The stem-amniote Orobates is known from both body fossils and trackways, so this team of researchers stitched all that information into a robot and produced some great animations of the way it probably walked. This is the sort of gait that would probably have to have been modified in both archosaurs and synapsids to get fleet footed tetrapods.



You can see some of them at Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/a-crocodile-like-robot-helps-solve-a-300-million-year-mystery/

And the paper is here (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0851-2
In the kingdom of the blind, better take public transit. Well, in the kingdom of the sighted, too, really--almost everyone is a terrible driver.

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