Tyrannosaurus en pointe: allometry minimized rotational inertia of large carnivorous dinosaurs
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Tyrannosaurus en pointe: allometry minimized rotational inertia of large carnivorous dinosaurs.
Theropod dinosaurs attained the largest body sizes among terrestrial predators, and were also unique in being exclusively bipedal. With only two limbs for propulsion and balance, theropods would have been greatly constrained in their locomotor performance at large body size. Using three-dimensional restorations of the axial bodies and limbs of 12 theropod dinosaurs, and determining their rotati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0097