Sentences with phrase «pterosaurs using»

They also performed a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary history of pterosaurs using the latest data and other anatomical features.

That's because the pterosaur used its wings to «stall» as birds do, says the team, so that the animal's body swung up from a horizontal flight position to near vertical, enabling it to land gently on its hind feet.

Not exact matches

Pterosaurs walked on all four limbs, and Habib has developed an anatomical model to explore how they might have launched themselves using their small hind limbs and larger «arms» which formed part of their wings.

Earlier this year Habib suggested that the largest pterosaurs took flight by using all four limbs to leap into the air — a technique similar to that used by some bats but quite unlike the take - off behaviour of modern birds.

According to his analysis, published in the European journal Zitteliana, pterosaurs folded their wings so they could act as arms and then used all four limbs to shove themselves aloft.

He could find no evidence to support the idea that large pterosaurs got off the ground using only their hind legs to launch.

Fossilized footprints indicate that pterosaurs walked on all fours, using their feet and the hands on their wings.

Now, Palmer's wind tunnel tests with models of the pterosaur wing are a second chapter to this story, filling out the full picture for how these reptiles used their unique limbs to stay in the air.

The researchers used a large - field SEM approach to analyze a shrimp fossil from the Araripe Basin, a place in northeastern Brazil known among paleontologists as a treasure trove of flying pterosaur remains.

A study published November 15 in PLoS ONE filled in some pieces of the puzzle, and offered one explanation for how the animals took off: Pterosaurs launched off the ground using all four limbs, reached a very high speed in half a second, and quickly gained altitude.