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This Rare Lizard Looks Exactly Like the Amazing Spider-Man

This Rare Lizard Looks Exactly Like the Amazing Spider-Man | Science News | Scoop.it

No Photoshop: The uncommon Mwanza Flat-headed Agama was spotted and photographed in Kenya.

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Leaping lizards! Jurassic Park got it right

Leaping lizards! Jurassic Park got it right | Science News | Scoop.it

High-speed video footage of leaping lizards supports a 40-year-old hypothesis1 about how theropod dinosaurs, such as the velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame, used their tails to stay stable while bounding around. The finding could be used to inform the design of more agile search-and-rescue robots.

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Re-creating Noah's Ark, with lizards, for science!

Re-creating Noah's Ark, with lizards, for science! | Science News | Scoop.it
After a hurricane wiped out all the lizard species on certain islands in the Bahamas, scientists re-populated the small islands with two lizards of each kind.
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Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design | KurzweilAI

Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design | KurzweilAI | Science News | Scoop.it
University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers have studied lizards and found that swinging the tail upward is the key to preventing a forward...

Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics

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