«Powered flight probably evolved after early birds acquired
more arboreal adaptations.»
Not exact matches
Like the
more familiar camera traps at ground level,
arboreal camera traps may become an important tool for recording hitherto hidden behaviors.
The
arboreal feat stumped scientists until
more than 200 years after Newton penned his botanical musings (shown above) in an unpublished notebook he used in the 1660s.
But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have
more than we realized: These
arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.
Although the fossil record is incomplete, we have
more than enough to see that, in broad terms, our big - brained, long - limbed, built - for - distance - walking species evolved from
arboreal ancestors with smaller brains, larger teeth and broader chests.
The future pods will have a new form of mediated
arboreal culture, to integrate the biological and mechanical elements
more closely, to transform the object into one that grows and changes symbiotically.