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Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools

Philip Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Most people probably aren’t thinking about the complexity of nature when they…

byPhilip Anderson

July 23, 2026