Nature's Most Surprising Projectiles

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References:
[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bombardier-beetles-and-their-caustic-chemical-cannon.html
[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.11.421891v2.full
[3] https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-bombardier-beetles-produce-defensive-spray-0430
[4] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0647
[5] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-020-01692-z
[6] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(07)01254-7.pdf
[7]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200318135214id_/https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/221/24/jeb159723.full.pdf
[8] http://tierphysiologie-bayreuth.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RischawySchuster2013.pdf
[9] https://elifesciences.org/articles/74057.pdf
[10] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep27523
[11] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220601013X
[12] https://bit.ly/3Cr7ntc
[13] https://www.micropia.nl/en/discover/microbiology/pilobolus/
[14] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158277

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