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Dinosaur Eel May Lead to Better Body Armor

By Alex in Animal, Weapons & War on Jul 28, 2008 at 5:18 pm


Meet the Senegal birchir aka the dinosaur eel. This amazing African fish has a unique scale physiology that teach scientists how to design better body armors:

Long and skinny and of ancient heritage, the 40-centimetre-long predator has multiple layers of scales that first dissipate the energy of a strike, then protect against any penetration to the soft tissues below and finally limit any damage to the shield to the immediate area surrounding the assault. [...]

COSMOS magazine has more: Link – via Scribal Terror


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  1. Rick Stone
    Jul 28th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    If you will google Dragon skin body armour you will see that this concept is being used. Old news, been there, done that.
    Rick

  2. Tara
    Jul 29th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    It might be an old concept but they are just saying that this might help them make that old concept better maybe?

  3. JC
    Jul 29th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    This may not be new, but it´s very interesting.

  4. Cnidaria
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 12:16 am

    I have one of these fish. The actual name is Senegal Bichir. They are really cool. They have ganoid scales, which are similar to snake scales and they can breathe air! Google or Wiki "Polypterus senegalus" (their scientific name) for more info.

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