Topic: Colin Palmer

Pterodactyl Flight

Pterodactyl are not giant birds and indeed if they were, they might not even be able to fly based on standard theories of flight. Pterodactyls) were too slow and flexible to use the stormy winds and waves of the southern ocean like ...
Colin Palmer, a graduate student at the University of Bristol, arrived at this conclusion by employing his expertise as a turbine engineer to carry out first-of-a kind tests on models of pterosaur wings in a wind tunnel. Now, Palmer's first-time wind ...
The largest flying animals ever known, the ancient pterosaurs, were light, fragile creatures best suited for catching rising air to soar, rather than braving strong winds, and for flying and landing slowly, according to new data from a doctoral student's wind ...
Pterosaurs, the largest creatures ever to take to the skies, were adept fliers in a balmy breeze but would have crashed in stormy weather, according to a study published this week.. But engineer-cum-palaeontologist Colin Palmer at the University of Bristol in Britain ...

Gene May Make Kids Crave Junk Food

Some people may be genetically driven to seek out more calorie-dense foods, a new study suggests.. "What [this study] effectively shows is that people with the relevant variants on the gene have a trait which may lead them to eat more unhealthy ...

Gene May Make Kids Crave Junk Food

Some people may be genetically driven to seek out more calorie-dense foods, a new study suggests.. "What [this study] effectively shows is that people with the relevant variants on the gene have a trait which may lead them to eat more unhealthy ...