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Mother Nature is the Original Machinist

Well that is pretty cool. I've always marvelled at how some of mechanics/feats were duplicates of biology (flying/movement,various chemical engineering accomplishments, etc) but I never would have imagined that a gear like mechanism wasn't solely a human developed concept.

Now I wonder if there are any prehistoric ameboes that actually used an internal combustion engine as means of locomotion? !
 
Note to self: I must stop Googling anything insect-related late at night. As a result of this gear mechanism search on Google the article suggested for me next was about a tiny hair and face mite that lives on most of us. It has no anus and so just explodes and dies after 14 days: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...crawl-and-have-sex-on-your-face/#.XWH27JNKjOQ

Jeeze Laweeze.......I just wanted to know about tiny gears, that's all.
 
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