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Three-dimensional visualization as a tool for interpreting locomotion strategies in ophiuroids from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate (2020)
Journal Article
Clark, E. G., Hutchinson, J. R., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2020). Three-dimensional visualization as a tool for interpreting locomotion strategies in ophiuroids from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate. Royal Society Open Science, 7(12), 201380. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201380

Living brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) employ a very different locomotion strategy to that of any other metazoan: five or more arms coordinate powerful strides for rapid movement across the ocean floor. This mode of locomotion is reliant o... Read More about Three-dimensional visualization as a tool for interpreting locomotion strategies in ophiuroids from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate.

Patterns of Limb and Epaxial Muscle Activity During Walking in the Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (2020)
Journal Article
Pierce, S. E., Lamas, L. P., Pelligand, L., Schilling, N., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2020). Patterns of Limb and Epaxial Muscle Activity During Walking in the Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra. Integrative Organismal Biology, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa015

Synopsis Salamanders and newts (urodeles) are often used as a model system to elucidate the evolution of tetrapod locomotion. Studies range from detailed descriptions of musculoskeletal anatomy and segment kinematics, to bone loading mechanics and in... Read More about Patterns of Limb and Epaxial Muscle Activity During Walking in the Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra.

More than one way to be a giant: Convergence and disparity in the hip joints of saurischian dinosaurs (2020)
Journal Article
Tsai, H. P., Middleton, K. M., Hutchinson, J. R., & Holliday, C. M. (2020). More than one way to be a giant: Convergence and disparity in the hip joints of saurischian dinosaurs. Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14017

ABSTRACT Saurischian dinosaurs evolved seven orders of magnitude in body mass, as well as a wide diversity of hip joint morphology and locomotor postures. The very largest saurischians possess incongruent bony hip joints, suggesting that large volum... Read More about More than one way to be a giant: Convergence and disparity in the hip joints of saurischian dinosaurs.