Because metabolic rate depends predictably on both body size and temperature, we can estimate the magnitude of many ecological processes from the temperature and size of the organisms that affect ...

Allometry is the study of how these processes scale with body size and with each other, and the impact this has on ecology and evolution. Aa Aa Aa Allometry, in its broadest sense, describes how ...

Assuming that O. megalodon had a body plan consistent with the vast majority of sharks, the team determined that its head length and tail length possibly occupied about 16.6% and 32.6% ...

The size of a man’s waistband is a better predictor of cancer risk than traditional body mass index measurements, research ...

It's ordinarily folded up beneath the body and held under tension by a structure ... as a previously developed jumping robot of a similar size. That said, the other robot weighs 20 times more ...