These features point to a slow, graviportal mode of locomotion.
This mode of locomotion, however, prevents vertical descent.
This primarily axially-driven mode of locomotion is not unique to lungfish.
This mode of locomotion is typically found in mammals living in open habitats.
This tumbling mode of locomotion is simple, saves energy, and doesn't require complex hardware, say the researchers involved.
So successful was this mode of locomotion that dinosaurs utilizing it dominated terrestrial life for millions of years.
"Their mode of locomotion is intimately tied to the exploitation of their food resources and has led to the evolution of walking rather than swimming," he says.
I learned that mobility and self-sufficiency were the keys to my own independence, and the Métro became, after a few hesitant tries, my mode of locomotion.
Its absence is probably related to the evolution of the exoskeleton and to the change in the mode of locomotion.
After hatching they can be classified as one of four basic larval types, partly by their mode of locomotion: nauplius, protozoea, zoea, and postlarva.
Walking or crawling is the usual mode of locomotion, and the familiar sidelong gait in the common shore crab is characteristic of most members of the group.
