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Why Tyrannosaurus was a slow runner

Source
Heritage Daily

Publication Date
2017-07-17

A research team under the direction of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena have now described why the largest animals are not the fastest. They have managed to so thanks to an amazingly simple mathematical model. The only information that the model must ‘be fed’ with is the weight of a particular animal as well as the medium it moves in, so either land, air or water.

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http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/07/tyrannosaurus-slow-runner/115961