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Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013)

by @cambridge_uni cam.ac.uk published 2013-09-12

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.

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