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Sea urchins can drill holes in solid rock with just their teeth

Sea urchins can drill holes in solid rock with just their teeth

21 February 2018

If a sea urchin can't find a suitable pit to live in, it makes one – even if it has to spend months gnawing away at hard granite
Mussels

Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

26 October 2017

Mussels grip onto rock using stretchy fibres with self-repairing molecular bonds. Mimicking the trick has inspired an extremely tough and elastic new material

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