Ms. Somogyi's entrance has powerful leaps.
The powerful leaps allow the ant to strike prey with a force equivalent to 300 times its body weight, the researchers said.
Wondering how leafhoppers avoid these expected fractures during their powerful leaps, a team of scientists used a high-speed camera to film the bugs at the moment of takeoff.
With enormous eyes that help them see in the dark and long heel bones that facilitate powerful leaps, "tarsiers are like primates from Mars," says K. Christopher Beard, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a co-author of the study.
The frogs are large, have powerful leaps, and inevitably escape after which they may wreak havoc among the native frog population.
In the 57th minute, substitute Maxwell found the head of Ramires, and the Chelsea man rewarded Scolari's decision to recall him to the Selecao with a goal from a powerful, leaping header.
In any case, both pterosaur limb sets are adapted for powerful leaping [18], [41], [70] and at least bounding gaits were probably attainable in all pterosaurs.
In addition, other authors have commented that pterosaur femora only appear slender in comparison to their large forelimbs and were well suited for powerful leaping [18], [70].
She imagined herself, she once wrote, with half a dozen wings along her back: My legs would be so powerful to leap a great distance as well as the kangaroo.
Angry, and suddenly powerful, Don leaps of bed and starts choking her.
