Creature with Interlocking Gears on Legs Discovered
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Gears are ubiquitous in the manmade world, 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 posses functional gears.