The loud crack of a deftly flicked bullwhip can certainly command attention. That distinctive noise is a small sonic boom, generated when the whip’s thin, highly flexible tip exceeds the speed of ...

Diplodocids – large herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails – may have been able to move their tails like bullwhips at speeds of up to 33 metres per second (more than 100 kilometres per hour), ...

The long-necked diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs were believed to be able to whip their tails at supersonic speeds. A new study explains why that isn't possible. A new study refuted the previously held ...

A sound that hasn’t been heard for at least 66 million years – the supersonic crack of the tail tip of a giant sauropod dinosaur, is now recreated in the lab. “They were the first living things to ...