{"id":95429,"date":"2020-10-22T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scientists-discover-ironclad-beetle-can-survive-being-run-over-by-a-car\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:41:20","slug":"scientists-discover-ironclad-beetle-can-survive-being-run-over-by-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-discover-ironclad-beetle-can-survive-being-run-over-by-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scientists discover \u2018ironclad\u2019 beetle can survive being run over by a car"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Scientists discover \u2018ironclad\u2019 beetle can survive being run over by a car<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Even a bodybuilder couldn\u2019t take on this beetle.<\/p>\n

And one tried. Jesus Rivera, an engineer at the University of California at Riverside, once challenged a skeptical weightlifter to take on a brawny bug now dubbed the \u201cdiabolical ironclad beetle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe picked it up and started squeezing it as hard as he could,\u201d Rivera told the New York Times<\/a>, speaking to the researcher about his new study in the journal Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Failing, the man asked, \u201cOK, tell me more,\u201d Rivera said. He and his colleagues didn\u2019t film this comical interaction, but they did get footage of a field test in which they ran over the beetle \u2014 twice<\/em> \u2014 with a 3,500-pound Toyota Camry, according to the Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s still alive,\u201d Rivera can be heard saying in the video\u00a0as he inspects the beetle, a species called Phloeodes diabolicus. \u201cIt\u2019s playing dead. But it\u2019s still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Predominantly found on the west coast of North America, the flightless, rugged beetles are prey mostly to birds, lizards and rodents, and tend to hide under \u2014 or, essentially, become \u2014 rocks to avoid being eaten. Should their cleverly craggy disguise fail, their almost-impenetrable exoskeleton will ward off all but the most persistent predators.<\/p>\n

Rivera and his engineering peers have something to learn from the diabolical ironclad beetle, whose unique structure could help with innovation in manufacturing industries, including defense and aeronautics.<\/p>\n

The bug\u2019s exterior app<\/a>ears to solve an age-old engineering conundrum: how to join \u201cdifferent materials without limiting their ability to support loads,\u201d researcher David Restrepo, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, told the Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe diabolical ironclad beetle has strategies to circumvent these limitations,\u201d Restrepo said.<\/p>\n

Compare the beetle to an egg if it had an interlocking mesh shell, suggested Rivera, wherein the yolk remains safely encased in the clear albumen.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can compress the shell without the yolk, or the organs, getting squished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The strength of its protein-rich casing, constructed in parts that link together, is the equivalent of a 150-pound human surviving the weight of 25 blue whales, the Times reported.<\/p>\n

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A CT scan reveals a pliable seal connecting two parts of the exoskeleton.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An extreme close-up of the beetle reveals a jigsaw puzzle-like seam where two exoskeletal plates meet on its back, which can bear a weight 39,000 times its own body\u2019s without being crushed.<\/p>\n

On BBC\u2019s \u201cToday,\u201d UC Riverdale professor David Kisailus, who co-authored the study, compared the beetle\u2019s modus operandi to a \u201cstone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that the beetle is fighting back, it\u2019s just that they\u2019re so tough and so robust it would just stand there and take it,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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