Piranha-Proof Armor Inspires Tough Materials

Originally posted on Inside Science TV July 19 2012
Arapaima fish's scales provide lessons for synthetic products.
Marc Meyers, University of California, San Diego [e-mail]
The Materials Research Foundation is an underwriter of Inside Science TV

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Hopefully the multinational corporations don't drive this beautiful fish to extinction.

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High evolved😢😢😢😢😢....this is pure design

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Thanks for never mentioning the fishes name anywhere in text

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Arapaima

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@@powewq1748 thank you

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Literally in first minute

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And in the description

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Alligator Gar have more solid armor plate than this

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Gar