Design features

A review of Animal Algorithms by Eric Cassell.

The Pleuruptya ruralis caterpillar has a rapid escape strategy of curling itself into a wheel, and quickly rolling backwards.

These awesome orb weaver spiders are good dancers—and master web architects, too

Perfect design is a bad foil for thinking about supposed cases of bad design.

Creation magazine has helped many to leave their doubts behind and enter into a confident, active Christian faith.

These bacteria precision-build magnetic navigation aids

Migrating birds use GPS based on Earth’s magnetic field

Peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) can punch with a force 100 times its body weight causing cavitation damage, and has vision with 12 different colour receptors.

Tooth enamel is tough because rod and tuft structure prevents cracks propagating.

Geckos stick to surfaces with tiny hairs that attract by van der Waals forces, and come unstuck by controlling angle of the hairs and springy curved toes.

Programmed bats innately know the constant speed of sound. Their echolocation system depends on it.

DNA needs helicase to unwind and topoisomerase to detangle, and contains instructions for these.

Bats ‘see’ the earth’s magnetic field

3D printed biomimetic robots demonstrate ammonites are intelligently designed to swim.

Baby brains are programmed for learning any language in the world and many other things, even before birth.

Ironclad beetle laminated elytra have special joins that confer extra toughness, and might inspire aircraft joints.