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A crested pterodactyl has prompted scientists to build an aircraft with a rudder at its head rather
Friday, October 03, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA – along with his multi-disciplinary team – is
designing a robotic aircraft inspired by a 225-million-year-old crested pterodactyl.
The dinosaur that has inspired Chatterjee is the Tapejara wellnhoferi, whose body looked like the typical flying lizard frame – light, airy wings stretched taut with skin, and a slender avian neck, with an 8-
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