[HN Gopher] Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never bef...
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Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in
insects
Author : kul
Score : 61 points
Date : 2020-11-26 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nationalgeographic.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nationalgeographic.com)
| hownottowrite wrote:
| https://archive.is/vZeQP
| colordrops wrote:
| Wow, archive.is is aborting on non-standard user agents. What a
| horrible practice.
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| What user agent is it aborting on?
|
| That is disappointing.
| est31 wrote:
| Do you use the cloudflare DNS? Maybe it's that. archive.is
| blocks it.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
| xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote:
| Another interesting animal, an iron snail:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_snail
| suifbwish wrote:
| Wow that's one of the coolest things I never learned about
| until now
| ORioN63 wrote:
| I don't think I've ever came across them before, but not even
| 20 minutes ago I was just checking out the deep mining
| wikipedia page that also mentions the same snails.
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| Correct link:
|
| https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/leaf-cutt...
| dang wrote:
| Changed from https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/pu
| blic/anima.... Thanks!
| anonytrary wrote:
| Why is this comment not higher up? The current link returns a
| JSON response: {"message": "Adapter not found"}
|
| Dang can update the link?
| zrkrlc wrote:
| I like how their experiment was literally pitting ants against
| each other.
| _Microft wrote:
| I can't help empathizing with animals in such a situation. It
| must be like getting teleported into an otherwise empty room
| with a tiger in it. (Turns out that humans with chainmail fare
| a lot better than those without!)
| emerged wrote:
| Ants individually are just happy to be of service to the
| queen. They should put a picture of the queen nearby as
| motivation.
| Razengan wrote:
| Pheromones of the queen you mean.
| nullsense wrote:
| I just got this when I tried to hit the page:
|
| {"message": "Adapter not found"}
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| Some fig wasps have zinc plated ovipositors.
|
| https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a12957/foun...
| corey_moncure wrote:
| And some blood worms have copper fangs!
| xipho wrote:
| And various other wasps have heavy metals concentrated near
| the apex of their mandibles.
|
| There's also resilin, an elastic-like compound(?) that
| concentrates energy at certain parts of insect joins, used
| during jumping, or other fast movements.
| suifbwish wrote:
| Knowing that it is possible to have these genetic traits makes
| me feel that humans are even more delicate than first thought.
| consumer451 wrote:
| > Knowing that it is possible to have these genetic traits
| makes me feel that humans are even more delicate than first
| thought.
|
| We are a relatively new model. Sure there are quality issues,
| but our scaling is unparalleled!
| sammalloy wrote:
| > never before seen in insects
|
| Is this surprising, considering that an estimated 86% of species
| on Earth and 91% of ocean species remain unidentified?
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| https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
| Aardwolf wrote:
| Perhaps never before seen in insects, but for sure already
| thought of by humans, I wouldn't be surprised some pokemon have
| rocky crystal armor.
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