How plesiosaurs ruled the ocean using their flippers
3 April 2019
Last update: 03/04/19 14:41
Plesiosaurs ruled the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs with specially adapted flippers that enabled them to swim faster and with greater efficiency than any other animal. Luke Muscutt studied the 4-flipper arrangement by conducting experiments at the University of Southampton to investigate exactly how it all worked…
Interview with Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford.
Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society
Publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Produced by Tom Crawford. Thanks to the UK Fluids Network and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics for supporting this project.
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