Grow Your Own ARMOR!
Picture a world where we all grow a suit of armor right out of our skin, so heavy that if we tried to swim, we'd sink like a rock! In this episode you'll learn how some ants turn the carbon dioxide in their nests into a stony coat of armor, and how a deep-sea snail covers its foot in scales full of iron. We even get into how some lobsters can live for more than a century. Suit up and press play!
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When she's not studying zombie fungus at Harvard or helping us break the universe every week, our very own Gaby Paniccia writes science fiction. Her short story "The Automatic Grocery Store" is now featured on the popular podcast Escape Pod! Listen here: https://escapepod.org/2026/02/19/escape-pod-1033-the-automatic-grocery-store/
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