Researchers from Purdue University and the University of California, Irvine, studied the aptly named diabolical ironclad beetle -- Phloeodes diabolicus -- to understand the secret behind its strength. "If you take any beetle, and you want to collapse it with your finger, you can probably kill it," he told CNN. But not the diabolical ironclad beetle.
Though the diabolical ironclad beetle doesn't use its elyton for flight, the elytra and connective suture instead help to distribute applied force more evenly throughout the insect's body.Zavattieri explained that the suture acts like a jigsaw puzzle, connecting the creature's various exoskeletal blades in the abdomen, which lock to prevent themselves from pulling out.
2020
Iron man lives
Don’t we have bigger issues to deal with?
Nobody cares. Report on my laptop.
First non-Trump CNN story since 2014! Good work, team.
BORING CNN.
Tiny boats.. Muslim Advocacy groups... Donoughts on election day... African Architecture... Now..Ironclad Beatles LOL LOL TRUMP HAS BROKEN CNN
Just like any other meth / heroine addict would do anything for their next fix, Joe Biden will b compromised because of his business collusion with CCP China 🇨🇳 & specially by his son’s drugs addiction...if Biden gets elected the safety of the nation USA 🇺🇸 can get compromised...
Poor insect... they should not portray this kind of violence, it is not funny. they are living beings
Wow
Good luck killing them if you find them in your house!
Trump's about to do his FIFTH rally today. Dude is a machine! Way way way more energy than SleepyJoe .
poll Have you ever seen a diabolical ironclad beetle in person?
Why are you guys disrespecting Joe's VP pick like this?
ian_rebuli
This thing can even survive antifa.
Clara Harris would like to give it a try.
Slipped through the crack. Doesn’t count
Omfg its sitting in a pile of sand of course it will survive.. you must think all people are trump stupid.. gimme a break.
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btrevazz
BLM
Black Hawk Down
lol
47yrs of corruption. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR US JOE? He won nothing. Weak old man who has spent his entire life JOE NEVER WORKED A REAL JOB. Obama 2.0 WONT WORK
Great. Now I can worry about this beetle being my eventual overlord. Thanks, CNN.
KLovesNature Time to harvest these beetles
We don’t believe you anymore!
Why Does It Have To Be Diabolical? :(
Just imagining a super high tech lab setting with scientists placing a beetle on the ground, giving the driver a thumbs up, who then backs over the beetle in an early-00's Honda Civic. 'Yeah shit he survived that.'
But can it survive a broken heart?
Hoax
Why Why are they making this?
I wonder whether the beetle will ever know how much power it has
Bug was made for 2020
Keep playing with nature and when nature will play with you not even stones will be able to tell the current human race's story to future intelligent species.
i hope they don't mass production them and turn them into tiers that wont ever show up because goodyear will buy it out and throw it away. money controls your feature
Hunter Bidens next laptop will be made from this beetle skin
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