Motion, muscles don't always work in lockstep, researchers find in surprising new study

Date:

March 14, 2014

Source:

University of California - Riverside

Summary:

Animals 'do the locomotion' every day, whether it's walking down the hall to get some coffee or darting up a tree to avoid a predator. And until now, scientists believed the inner workings of movement were pretty much the same. But in a first-of-its-kind study on wild green anole lizards, biologists have discovered that the link between muscle function and movement is a lot more complicated than anyone realized.

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