False Sense of Maturity

U.S. Army takes some advice from nature!
It is so funny to me, how most Americans believe that our earth is 6 thousand years old yet they don’t even question science or even question themselves if they benefit in some manner. Granted, the age of this fish isn’t the only factor here but it’s the fact that this fish, as a species, has lasted in this similar form for as long as it has…

African fish that have trolled for prey in murky freshwater pools for nearly 100 million years sport the best of the best in body armor. Now a team of engineers has dissected the aquatic armor, figuring out how it works in an effort to suit up future soldiers.

Here’s the article.

“That doesn’t surprise me that millions of years or hundreds of millions of years of evolution would be a good starting point for what we need for this day and age,” said Leo Smith, assistant curator of zoology at The Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved in the study. “[The armor's] been sort of fine-tuned during that time for different aspects.”