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...hadrosaur's vertebrae are spaced 10 mm apart, making the animal longer than thought. 2 The hind legs are 25% larger than once believed. 3 Its overall bigger size means it probably could run faster too, up to 28 m.p.h.--about the speed of an African elephant...
...themselves in the mood for sex. This is not to say that more involved fathering has erased marital tensions or that it hasn't introduced new ones. Dads admit they get fussed over for things moms do every day. "Sometimes you're treated like a dog walking on its hind legs--'Oh, look, he can do laundry!'" says Jim O'Kane, 47, a father of two in Blackstone, Mass. And some women resent ceding their role as top parent. When her daughter fell down at a birthday party, Amy Vachon, 44, of Watertown, Mass., recalls that the girl ran crying...
Animals have had it even worse. If prostheses existed at all, they have been comparatively crude things. Surgeons have had some success attaching artificial beaks to birds that veterinarians suspect were mutilated by fishermen who didn't want the animals competing for their catch. Dogs and cats with disabled hind legs are often strapped into little carts that let them get around using just their forelimbs. But those low-tech fixes had been more or less as far as it went...
...been attempted in at least 60 humans, mainly in Scandinavia, every animal presents surgeons with a different biomechanical challenge. Attaching a leg to a nimble, bouncing animal like a kangaroo is different from creating a limb for a plodding one like an elephant. When Stumpy the kangaroo lost her hind leg, surgeons designed a prosthetic foot--held in place by a traditional stump and socket--that is made of carbon fiber, which has the ability to spring back to its original shape after it is bent. This same technique is often used to make prostheses for human runners, like...
...vegetable stew, which not everyone will know or, knowing, will care about. And then ... well ... rats. They are typically figures of fear and loathing, and the Bird team hasn't prettied them up. Though Remy's coat has a lovely bluish sheen, and he often walks on his two hind paws, he is recognizably a rat, much closer to his species than a certain Disney mouse--with red pants, white gloves and yellow shoes--is to his. Then there are the marketing tie-ins, which reap extra cash and free promotion. As Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis asks, with a rhetorical...