Evolution of the Tail: From Water to Land (2 of 17) (IMAGE)

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Evolution of the Tail: From Water to Land (2 of 17)

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Researchers studied the motion of mudskippers to understand how early terrestrial animals might have moved about on mud and sand. The animal was photographed at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. 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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