MCZ Faculty-Curators create robotically controlled models to test mobility of a recently-discovered dinosaur tail

April 30, 2020

photo of George Lauder working on computers — George Lauder setting up the experimental parameters. Photo by Stephanie E. Pierce

MCZ Faculty-Curators George Lauder (Ichthyology) and Stephanie Pierce (Vertebrate Paleontology) were part of a recent project to determine the aquatic functionality of a dinosaur tail recently discovered and believed to belong to a Spinosaurus. The research is featured in the New York Times, Harvard Gazette and published in Nature.

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MCZ Faculty-Curators create robotically controlled models to test mobility of a recently-discovered dinosaur tail

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