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 ...

Tail swing is essential when choosing an excavator because the machine may work in limited or restricted spaces. Hitchcock explains that a reduced-tail-swing excavator may be a better choice when ...

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 ...

Often compared to an army tank or bus, Ankylosaurus was a heavily armored dinosaur with a large club-like protrusion at the end of its tail. Ankylosaurus means "fused lizard" in Greek, and it was ...

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 ...