LOS ANGELES — Gears may seem like a purely human invention. Yet the basic interlocking mechanism found inside grandfather clocks and car-steering systems has turned up in the remarkably powerful legs ...

Planthoppers are champion jumpers — launching themselves upward, hundreds of times their own height, in just a couple of milliseconds. They... Living Gears Help This Bug Jump Greg Sutton was closely ...

This complex arrangement of rods and interlocking gears is the hip joint of an immature planthopper insect. It’s the only instance of functioning, interlocking gears that has been found in nature, at ...

Gears and wheels are not very common in nature. Recently however, biologist have discovered a precision gearing mechanism that is built and used by an insect known as a planthopper. The bug employs ...