Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas
D. Rex Mitchell specialises in vertebrate skull shape and feeding biomechanics; the influence of feeding regimes on skull morphology in herbivores, using geometric morphometrics (shape analysis) and finite element analysis (biomechanics).
Why the long face? Experts provide a new theory for why larger mammals tend to have longer faces
Dec 12, 2023 15:57 pm UTC| Nature
A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, why the long face? Its one of the oldest puns in the book, and theres no shortage of entertaining answers. With our new review we add our own scientific explanation:...
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