Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

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Watch: Robot Recreates Gait of Ancient Creature

A team of researchers in Europe used modern technology to take a  proverbial glimpse into the ancient past by creating a robot which  recreates the walking motion of a prehistoric creature. The remarkable  experiment reportedly centered around a lizard-like animal known as the  Orobates pabsti, which existed on Earth around 300 million years ago.  How, exactly, the five-foot-long creature walked on land has been the  subject of considerable speculation, but this new experiment seems to  have unlocked the secret.

Using fossilized footprints laid down by the creature in ancient times  as well as a 3D digital model of the Orobates pabsti, researchers ran  hundreds of different simulations of the animal in motion. Once they'd  narrowed down the possibilities, the team then created a robot of the  ancient beast in order to test these gaits in a three-dimensional  environment which could account for factors like gravity and friction.  This allowed them to refine their approach as some of the suspected  walking styles turned out to be impossible for the creature to pull off  outside of the digital realm.

Check out the amazing and somewhat eerie video of the robot in action at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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