Ever wondered why cheetahs are so dang fast, but smaller animals, like mice, or larger animals, like elephants, are much slower? Thrilled to share our new study in Nat Comm led by @EvoBiomech & @cclemente4 w/ Peter Bishop. A conversation that started nearly 10 y ago rdcu.be/dANSE
Christofer J Clemente
@cjclemente.bsky.social
Evolutionary biomechanist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Studies kangaroos, lizards, frogs, insects anything i can get my hands on really....
Muscle peeps...pennation angle matters, but does NOT belong in the equation for PCSA. Please, as a field, let's start using the correct equation. We tried to explain a bit of these here - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The fast and the furriest stories.uq.edu.au/news/2024/wh... Thank you @UQ News for featuring our recent paper in Nature Comms nature.com/articles/s41... with the dream team of collaborators @cclemente4 @FriedlDeGroote