How This Lizard Performs a Miracle

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Be one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realscience/ SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER https://stephaniesammann.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Images Courtesy of Getty Images Thanks to our Patreon Supporters: Eric Ypsilantis Robert Thompson Keith Skipper Credits: Writer/Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Justin Chua ([email protected]) Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering) REFERENCES [1] O’Shea, M. (2010). Lizards of the world. New Holland. [2] Roach, J. (2021, May 3). How “jesus lizards” walk on water. Animals. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/news-jesus-lizards-basilisks-walk-water [3] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127900 [4] Vieira, G. H., Colli, G. R., & Bao, S. N. (2005). Phylogenetic relationships of Corytophanid lizards (Iguania, Squamata, Reptilia) based on partitioned and total evidence analyses of sperm morphology, gross morphology, and DNA data. Zoologica Scripta, 34(6), 605–625. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00208.x [5] Blickhan, R. (1989). The spring-mass model for running and hopping. Journal of Biomechanics, 22(11–12), 1217–1227. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9290(89)90224-8 [6] Semroc, J. (n.d.). Cleveland Museum of Natural history. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. https://www.cmnh.org/science-news/blog/july-2020/walking-on-water [7] Hsieh, S. T., & Lauder, G. V. (2004). Running on water: Three-dimensional force generation by basilisk lizards. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(48), 16784–16788. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405736101 [8] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/199/12/2611/7144/Size-Dependence-of-Water-Running-Ability-in [9] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037300 [10] Yamada, Y., & Nakamura, T. (2018). Blade-type crawler capable of running on the surface of water as bio-inspired by a basilisk lizard. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2018.8594397 [11] Fill, D., Strauss, E., Dunning, C., Western, A., & Hassanalian, M. (2021). Amphibious bioinspired robots for Ocean Objects Identification. AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-2781 [12] Floyd, S., Adilak, S., Ramirez, S., Rogman, R., & Sitti, M. (2008). Performance of different foot designs for a water running robot. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. https://doi.org/10.1109/robot.2008.4543216 [13] Park, H. S., Floyd, S., & Sitti, M. (2009). Dynamic Modeling and analysis of pitch motion of a basilisk lizard inspired quadruped robot running on water. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. https://doi.org/10.1109/robot.2009.5152556