Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
It's a while since I've posted about new papers, so I'm going to have a series of posts catching up on 2022's papers. First up is Jens Lallensack's cool paper in Interface about using AI and machine learning to distinguish between theropod and ornithopod tracks. For those unfamiliar, ornithopod tracks and theropod tracks are both... Continue Reading →
Today sees the online (in press) publication of work I've been showing off since early in my Marie Curie Post-doc, way back in 2012! Falkingham, P.L., Turner, M.L. and Gatesy, S.M. (2020), Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation. Palaeontology. doi:10.1111/pala.12502 The paper's open access, so click... Continue Reading →
The LJMU Scholarship scheme has opened once again. PhD's on offer: Biomechanical function of the metatarsals in digitigrade animals.Using computer generated social stimuli to examine the behavioural, hormonal, and neural responses to agonistic signals in a highly social fishMolecular and 3D morphological analysis of fossilised parasitesParticle Physics for Manufacturing Unlike previous years where students applied... Continue Reading →
I was involved in some fun research that was finally published last year, and I didn’t have chance to write blog posts for all of it, so here’s a summary of what came out of the Falkingham lab last year: The year started off with a paper led by collaborators at Brown. My simulation work... Continue Reading →
New paper out today in Royal Society Interface, that I’m rather excited to be a co-author on. Led by Dr Kristen Crandell from Bangor University, and with her former undergrad Rowan Howe (I believe it start out as his undergrad project), the paper takes a look at how beak shape across kingfishers correlates with lifestyle.... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I was out walking in North Wales near Conwy, and came across this: Intriguing! This was on the top of the hill near Conwy, and there were no animals immediately visible. But it did get my mind thinking about apparent swimming dinosaur tracks I’d seen figured before: I’ve... Continue Reading →
A while back I got a high speed camera from https://www.slomocamco.com/ (I'm planning on doing a write up on the camera at some point). In parallel with a course I've been developing and teaching for the first time this year - Animals in Motion - I've been capturing various videos of animals moving in slow... Continue Reading →
I’ve previously discussed on this blog my love of dealing with a combination of rotation maths and awkward software. I finally solved the problems that have been bugging my simulation workflow for the past 5 years, and I thought now would be a good time to share the mistakes I’ve made, and the code that... Continue Reading →
A somewhat belated blog post about my recent paper with Stephen Gatesy, published in JVP (If you don't have access, just drop me an email). It's one of the papers I'm most proud to have worked on, because I think it's a really interesting discussion about what we mean when we say a track is... Continue Reading →
For the last couple of days and nights, I've been doing my best to try and get my Maya scripts working to convert XROMM animations into input files for LIGGGHTS. I've previously done this for my paper with Stephen Gatesy, 'The Birth of a Dinosaur Track', but that was a) quite a while ago now,... Continue Reading →
Dr Peter L. Falkingham 