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August 21, 2014

To better understand vertebrae, John Long's team studies real sharks to produce mechanical ones

Dive in with NSF-funded researcher John Long and his robotic sharks. A professor at Vassar College, Long, along with his team, studies real live sharks and their vertebral columns. The researchers then take their findings and design computer models and artificial vertebral columns to understand sharks' movement and biomechanics.

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