Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne

Fossil aardvark (orycteropus) from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa

Lehmann, Thomas

In: South African journal of science = Suid-Afrikaanse joernaal van wetenskap = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir wetenskap, 2004, vol. 100, p. 311

Université de Fribourg

Digital reconstruction of the inner ear of Leptictidium auderiense (Leptictida, Mammalia) and North American leptictids reveals new insight into leptictidan locomotor agility

Ruf, Irina ; Volpato, Virginie ; Rose, Kenneth D. ; Billet, Guillaume ; Muizon, Christian de ; Lehmann, Thomas

In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2016, vol. 90, no. 1, p. 153–171

Leptictida are basal Paleocene to Oligocene eutherians from Europe and North America comprising species with highly specialized postcranial features including elongated hind limbs. Among them, the European Leptictidium was probably a bipedal runner or jumper. Because the semicircular canals of the inner ear are involved in detecting angular acceleration of the head, their morphometry can be...

Université de Fribourg

The faster, the better? Relationships between run-up speed, the degree of difficulty (D-score), height and length of flight on vault in artistic gymnastics

Schärer, Christoph ; Lehmann, Thomas ; Naundorf, Falk ; Taube, Wolfgang ; Hübner, Klaus

In: PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, no. 3, p. e0213310

On vault in artistic gymnastics, a high run-up speed is thought to be important when performing difficult vaults. To test this assumption in a large cohort of elite athletes, we calculated the correlations between the run-up speed, scores, height and length of flight for handspring-, Tsukahara- and Yurchenko-style vaults and compared the performances of male and female elite and junior...