🪲 Diabolical ironclad beetles are almost unbreakable — you can smack them, stomp on them or run them over with a car, and they'll scamper away uncrushed. 😨 Now, scientists know why these beetles' outer wing cases, known as elytra, are so tough — they're made up of a series of smoothly interlocking puzzle parts; the geometry and internal structure of this "jigsaw" design increase the strength of the beetle's armor. Ironclad beetles (Phloeodes diabolicus) measure about 0.6 to 1 inch (15 to 25 mi
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6K views · 59 reactions | The diabolical ironclad beetle is so tough, it can survive getting run over by a car applying ~100 newtons of force. Engineers from Lyles School of Civil Engineering - Purdue and The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine teamed up to unlock the beetle's secrets, in a paper published in Nature News and Comment.  bit.ly/di-beetle | Purdue Engineering | Facebook
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81K views · 40 reactions | A diabolical ironclad beetle survives being run over by a car. The beetle’s “crush-resistant” exoskeleton, specifically its elytra, allow it to withstand up to 39,000 times its body weight. Credit: Kisailus Biomimetics and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, University of California, Irvine via Storyful | FOX6 News Milwaukee | Facebook
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