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Oct 9, 2008
form a three-mast sailboat structure with its body. The membranous crest atop its head would have served as the third sail, used as a rudder for steering, said Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist of Texas Tech University who is working on the bio-inspired craft. Similarly, the Pterodrone will sport morphing wings and a head crest made of carbon fiber and nylon for such multimodal locomotion. 'The
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Oct 9, 2008
ut it also had arms. The feathers were obviously designed to help lifting the animal into the air, but how exactly it traveled still eludes experts like Sankar Chatterjee and R. Jack Templin from the Texas Tech University. The pose which they proposed for the bird-like dinosaur may shed some light on the origins of flight, which sees two sides with opposite opinions confront for decades. Some beli
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Oct 9, 2008
see a pterodactyl flying overhead are not imagining things. University of Florida aerospace engineer Rick Lind is developing a robotic spy plane modeled after the flying prehistoric dinosaur. Texas Tech University paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee first proposed the idea of using the pterodactyl's features in a plane. Lind said the military's push for tiny aircraft makes it necessary to cop
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Oct 9, 2008
unterparts, according to the findings of an academic study published in the Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis. Analyzing employment data from 1976 to 2008, researchers from the Texas Tech University 'Even during periods of non-economic downturn, the Hispanic unemployment rate is highly volatile,' Mr. Reyes says. 'These findings should serve as a warning call that this large
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