6 Types of Odd Body Armor

From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect.

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Sources:
ANTS:
https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/bug-byte...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
http://serious-science.org/ant-wars-6652
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/content...

ALLIGATORFISH
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.livescience.com/15128-arm....
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

WHALE SHARK:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
http://www.elasmo-research.org/educat...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/a...

MANTIS SHRIMP
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/ear...
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-mantis-....
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24937167...
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://pateklab.biology.duke.edu/mec...
https://phys.org/news/2016-05-mantis-...
http://bit.ly/2KPsIEW

DAPHNIA
https://betadifferentiatie.files.word...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...,
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil...
http://bit.ly/3rnyUoB
https://bit.ly/3plqgEZ

BACTERIA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.embopress.org/doi/pdf/10....
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117...
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/12/6297
https://go.nature.com/3nPzA3R

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/66...
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/66...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/3770786...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
bit.ly/3roLWSC