He showed the similarity in the forms of jellyfish and the forms of drops of liquid falling into viscous fluid, and between the internal supporting structures in the hollow bones of birds and well-known engineering truss designs.
Videos hosted by Professor Lorna Gibson bring an engineering approach to birding.
As a result of this engineering, their delicate, bird-like skeletons are often found in quite a crushed state.
Balanced on two legs, like humans, and able to fly and swim, birds have been viewed as an engineering miracle in the East and West and have been studied by artists and scientists alike.
An even more recent decline of European grayling populations throughout central Europe, due to pollution, habitat destruction, river engineering, predation from piscivorous birds and overfishing [ 1, 13, 15, 25- 27], is also characteristic to Serbian grayling populations.
His father, a university lecturer in engineering - and an enthusiastic bird photographer - encouraged his interests.
Understanding the genetic differences that lead to physical differences between birds and dinosaurs is allowing "reverse genetic engineering" to occur on a small scale in the lab.
In a way, the bird-foot delta is an artifact of engineering.
It provides staging, wintering and breeding sites for birds and may directly benefit from ecological restoration engineering for wetlands (Wu and others 2009; Zhao and others 2005).
Max was a Shanghai native who'd gone to Swarthmore to study engineering and come home as a vegan bird-watcher pursuing a career in ecology.
