Archive Gallery: The Best of Biomimicry

"Humans might be the most highly-evolved species on the planet, but most animals possess skills we can only dream of having. Imagine how much electricity we could save if we could see in the dark the way cats do. Imagine leaping from tree to tree like a monkey. Giraffes, which are otherwise calm and genteel, sleep only 4.6 hours a day (forget flying, how can I learn to do that?). We realized a long, long time ago--centuries, perhaps even thousands of years before the publication of Popular Scienc"