Boomhauer

Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-functio...rs-nature.html

LaLaLayla

Wow! That's amazing! I wonder why they only discovered that now?

shiva

it take a special person to stick microscopes up next to an insects arse to see whats there. presumably there hasn't been anyone so inclined before

LaLaLayla

Oh, I was hoping he was a new species.

shiva

The researcher may well be. As I say it's a special sort that think to do that sort of thing

LaLaLayla

They say that cogs have an evolutionary precedent, but maybe it is nature mimicking science? Maybe the plant-hopping insect has recently evolved to have these cog things? Just a thought...

shiva

Err science is largely the study of nature

LaLaLayla

Shiva, why do your posts - whatever the subject - always come across as so patronising?

shiva

It's the way you read them

LaLaLayla

Nah, not so sure.