Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Flight-by-feel is an emerging approach to flight control that uses distributed arrays of
pressure, strain, and flow sensors to guide aircraft. Among these, hair-type flow sensors …

The labyrinth of the vertebrate inner ear is a sensory system that governs the perception of
head rotations. Central hypotheses predict that labyrinth shape and size are related to …

Major evolutionary transitions, in which animals develop new body plans and adapt to
dramatically new habitats and lifestyles, have punctuated the history of life. The origin of …

Living archosaurs (birds and crocodylians) have disparate locomotor strategies that evolved
since their divergence∼ 250 mya. Little is known about the early evolution of the sensory …

Reptiles, including birds, exhibit a range of behaviorally relevant adaptations that are
reflected in changes to the structure of the inner ear. These adaptations include the capacity …

Owls and nightbirds are nocturnal hunters of active prey that combine visual and hearing
adaptations to overcome limits on sensory performance in low light. Such sensory …

In birds, the brain (especially the telencephalon) is remarkably developed, both in relative
volume and complexity. Unlike in most early‐branching sauropsids, the adults of birds and …

Among terrestrial vertebrates, only crown birds (Neornithes) rival mammals in terms of
relative brain size and behavioural complexity. Relatedly, the anatomy of the avian central …

Ornithischian dinosaurs exhibited a diversity of ecologies, locomotory modes, and social
structures, making them an ideal clade in which to study the evolution of neuroanatomy and …