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Future Soldiers Could Wear Fish-like Armor

By studying the scaled armor of a species of fish that have been swimming through the freshwater pools of Africa for the past 100 million years or so, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now revealed the secrets to one of the most effective aquatic armors, which could eventually lead to the development of armored suits for the soldiers of the future. The fish examined by the researchers during the study is known as the gray bichir (Polypterus senegalus), after itÂ’s been c... Read »
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