> Ok, Pay no attention to that
worthless rant of frustration that I wrote at 4am and for which Tracy decided
to post
> when she shouldn't have.
Errr... "...HE
shouldn't have." Tracy is an XY genotype...
> Alright.... The following is a
link Holtz gave:
Actually, that was from John's post: I added only the last
link (to the Straight Dope's site). There are various weird things
that go on when I reply to html-formatted emails (not fond of
them...).
> I have no idea what Bakker
said.
Bob
apparently used the old "models say bumblebees can't fly" urban myth, hence
all the links to that subject.
> Well, well, wellâ. Fish donât
seem to have the muscle mass to swim as fast as they do, and we still canât
model
> it right. How fascinating!!! Sure,
we are dealing with a different medium called water, but the fact remains that
itâs
> the muscle power that is in
question.
Actually
don't know much about their experiments, but a series of recent papers (some
of which were published in American Zoologist about a year or so ago, in their
Axial Skeleton issue) suggest that helical fibers of various tissues (blubber,
among other things) are very important "springs" in the locomotion of fast
swimming vertebrates.