ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
The shape of Nature's stingers revealed.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mechanical limits shape the eccentric form of rose prickles.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2026Article
- Trade-offs in mechanical performance influence the diversity of fangs, stingers, and spines.Science advances · 2026Article
- The geometry of Nature's stingers is universal due to stochastic mechanical wear.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Sharpening our understanding of saber-tooth biomechanics.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2025Review
- Integrative research on the mechanisms of acupuncture mechanics and interdisciplinary innovation.Biomedical engineering online · 2025Review
- How do roses build failure-resistant anchoring tools?PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Being thin-skinned can still reduce damage from dynamic puncture.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Curving expectations: The minimal impact of structural curvature in biological puncture mechanics.Science advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
Stinger-like structures in living organisms evolved convergently across taxa for both defensive and offensive purposes, with the main goal being penetration and damage. Our observations over a broad range of taxa and sizes, from microscopic radiolarians to narwhals, reveal a self-similar geometry of the stinger extremity: the diameter (
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