Evolution of the Tail: From Water to Land (7 of 17) (IMAGE)

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Evolution of the Tail: From Water to Land (7 of 17)

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Researchers (l-r) Richard Blob, Ben McInroe and Dan Goldman examine a robot whose locomotion was inspired by the mudskipper. The robot has two limbs and a powerful tail to move though a trackway that can be raised to simulate granular slopes. Blob is a professor at Clemson University; McInroe was a student at Georgia Tech when the research was conducted, and Goldman is a professor at Georgia Tech. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B. McInroe at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors."

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Rob Felt, Georgia Tech

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