Letter Published: 16 October 2003 Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency Graham K. Taylor, Robert L. Nudds & Adrian L. R. Thomas Nature 425, 707–711 ...

A single magic number describes the locomotion of flying and swimming animals, from moths to dolphins. The finding could shed light on the flying skills of extinct animals and help defence researchers ...

The movements of bumblebees and blue whales could not appear more different, but zoologist Graham Taylor of Oxford University finds an underlying similarity. He and his colleagues have discovered that ...