Insect has actual gears on its legs to sync jumps, and that's a first
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Gears are ubiquitous in the man-made world, found in items ranging from wristwatches to car engines, but it seems that nature invented them first.A species of plant-hopping insect, Issus coleoptratus, is the first living creature known to possess functional gears, a new study finds.