Sunday 26 January 2014

Morphing bat skull model: Using engineering plus evolutionary analyses to answer natural selection questions

Date: January 23, 2014

Source: University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Summary:  Scientists have built an engineering model of a bat skull that can morph into the shape of any species, and used it to create skulls with all possible combinations of snout length and width. Then they ran engineering analyses on all the models to assess their structural strength and mechanical advantage, a measure of how efficiently and how hard bats can bite.


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