Tag: mantis shrimp
Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.
Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms
Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp.
Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving
The humble dandelion’s seeds are so optimized for lift and flight time that scientists wonder about borrowing its design for parachutes.
A Snail as Fast as a Bullet, and Other Darwin-Defying Marvels
You could fill up a web publication’s daily coverage just with new wonders from the world of life. Would that be expected given Darwinian assumptions?
Can You Say That in Nature? Dobzhansky’s Evolution Cliché Is Becoming Passé
“Nothing in biology makes sense except…” Go ahead; complete that sentence yourself, with a yawn.