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title: Mechanical Gears in Jumping Insects — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/mechanical-gears-in-jumping-insects/
date: 2015-01-31
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# Mechanical Gears in Jumping Insects

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect – the plant-hopper Issus – showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.