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The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion

The extinct ocean-going plesiosaurs were unique within vertebrates because they used two flipper pairs identical in morphology for propulsion. Although fossils of these Mesozoic marine reptiles have been known for more than two centuries, the function and dynamics of their tandem-flipper propulsion...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proc Biol Sci
Hauptverfasser: Muscutt, Luke E., Dyke, Gareth, Weymouth, Gabriel D., Naish, Darren, Palmer, Colin, Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577481/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28855360
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0951
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