Tracking and modeling mouse movements during the platform walking task. Ipsilateral movements (IL) refer to the tail being on the same side as the tilt direction, while contralateral (CL) movements ...

Scientists studied how thresher sharks use “extreme yoga” to whip their tails at prey. By Kate Golembiewski When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a ...

Researchers in Austria have discovered that the Plateosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur that thrived during the Late Triassic, likely used its long, whip-like tail as a powerful weapon to protect itself ...

Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger) The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long ...