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Real inventions that plants and animals thought of first.
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The long flippers of a humpback whale are lined with knobbly bumps along the front edge, and when scientists tested them in a wind tunnel, the bumps turned out to be worth copying on fans and turbines.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A gecko can hang from a glass ceiling on perfectly dry feet, and once scientists looked at the whole foot rather than just its tiny hairs, they built a pad that grips like one.