This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature | Surprising Science - http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science...
Sep 13, 2013
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"Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton, a pair of biologists from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., discovered that juveniles of the species [Issus coleoptratus] have an intricate gearing system that locks their back legs together, allowing both appendages to rotate at the exact same instant, causing the tiny creatures jump forward."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Even I thought this was interesting and I hate bugs. Honestly, how humans and animals could come up with the same designs is amazing.
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