How do ants crawl on walls? A biologist explains their sticky, spiky, gravity-defying grip
How do ants crawl on walls?—Ethan, age 9, Dallas, Texas
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2022
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News tagged with leg muscles
How insects activate muscles to adapt to limbs removed
Adaptability explains why insects spread so widely and why they are the most abundant animal group on earth. Insects exhibit resilient and flexible locomotion, even with drastic changes in their body structure such as losing ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2021
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Neuromechanics of flamingos' amazing feats of balance
If you've watched flamingos at the zoo – or if you're lucky, in the wild – you've likely wondered how flamingos manage to sleep standing on one leg.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2017
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World's oldest muscle-fibre fossil reveals the origin of legs
It looks like a tattered surgical stocking with legs. But this millimetre-long fossil is one of the best preserved animal fossils from the Cambrian period, 500m years ago. With no mineralised hard parts, worms like this would ...
Archaeology
Sep 28, 2016
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Froggie went a courtin' and waved goodbye to rival wooers
Most frogs use acoustic signals - or croaks - to communicate during mating season, but some species have also developed a wave, called a foot flag, as a signal to deter the competition.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2016
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Strategy based on human reflexes may keep legged robots and prosthetic legs from tripping
Trips and stumbles too often lead to falls for amputees using leg prosthetics, but a robotic leg prosthesis being developed at Carnegie Mellon University promises to help users recover their balance by using techniques based ...
Robotics
Nov 18, 2015
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Evolution provides 'leg up' for bandicoots and bilbies
Where you and I might see flesh and bones, Murdoch University's Dr Natalie Warburton sees evolution, conservation and the endless battle between predator and prey.
Evolution
Sep 17, 2015
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Comparison of bonobo anatomy to humans offers evolutionary clues
(Phys.org)—A pair of anthropology researchers, one with the University of California, the other Modesto College has found what they believe are clues to human evolutionary development by conducting a long term study of ...
Move it or lose it: One-year mission video miniseries
Have you ever noticed after lying in bed sick for a few days that standing upright took you a moment to regain your balance? Or perhaps you have an aging grandparent who spends more time lying in bed than standing and you ...
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2015
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Movement without muscles study in insects could inspire robot and prosthetic limb developments
Neurobiologists from the University of Leicester have shown that insect limbs can move without muscles – a finding that may provide engineers with new ways to improve the control of robotic and prosthetic limbs.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2013
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