Good fences may make for good neighbours, but as a team of U.S. researchers has discovered, when your neighbours are a school of voracious piranha, adding a suit of armour helps a lot more. The scales ...

The sturdy armor of the dragon fish (Polypterus senegalus) has kept this tough, ancient species going for 96 million years – since the Cretaceous! Each scale that covers its long body has multiple ...

(CNN) — A huge fish that is impervious to piranha attacks could become the inspiration for a new class of ultratough composite materials. Its scales are so tough that piranha teeth crack when they ...

The Amazon River is filled with mysterious creatures, and one of those is the piranha. Almost everybody knows what a piranha can do and yes, they're real. They're carnivorous fishes and they can strip ...

Body armour inspired by fish scales could lead to new flexible materials for uniforms that can withstanding bullets and knife attacks. Scientists have been using three dimensional printing to help ...

Rare 'bionic' armour has been discovered in the tomb of a horse rider in northwest China, a new study has revealed. Researchers say the 'light and highly efficient defensive garment' was constructed ...

Fish scales are serving as the inspiration for a new type of body armour funded by the U.S. Army. American and Israeli researchers have produced prototypes of the armour, which mimics the overlapping ...

A research team in Changsha in central China’s Hunan province said it had developed the world’s first lightweight, flexible body shield to protect soldiers from armour-piercing weapons. Three rounds ...

IN DAYS of old, knights protected themselves in armour made up of tough, interlocking “scales”. This idea might one day be revisited, with future soldiers decked out in scales inspired by the almost ...

Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both ...