The Youth American Scientists - Armita Manafzadeh

Investigating the shape and evolution of animal joints

- Jackie Flynn Mogensen

In paleontology, bones may steal the show.

But to comparative biologist Armita Manafzadeh, joints are where the action is. As she sees it, almost every animal with a backbone that has ever walked, flown, swum or slithered across the planet has done so because of joints. It’s an understudied part of the evolutionary puzzle.