This smaller cousin of Stegosaurus, found in the Late Jurassic deposits of Tanzania, was armed with a formidable array of paired spikes along its tail. (And, in one of my favorite bits of fossil ...

New research indicates that the tail clubs on huge armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs may have evolved to whack each other rather than deter hungry predators. This is a complete shift from ...

Combining the imaging data with measurements of the dinosaur's backbone, they determined the Ankylosaurus could swing its tail in a 100 degree lateral arc, and that larger clubs could generate ...

Case's CX compact excavator line was introduced with zero tail swing and a center-swing boom that enables operators to maneuver in tight spaces without hitting obstacles. Five models (CX14, CX25, CX31 ...

she discovered a tail muscle that seemed to activate at peculiar times during the tail’s swing back and forth. To understand the muscle’s role, she decided to track in fine detail how the ...

This may not have been so. Some plesiosaurs may have had tail fins. From the time that Victorian naturalist William Conybeare named Plesiosaurus on the basis of a nearly-complete skeleton in 1824 ...

Figure 1: Pitch stabilization using a tail in a lizard and robot. Figure 2: Sensitivity of body rotation to a perturbation in a lizard and robot. For simple characterization of the underlying ...