OMG! Cockroach Giving Birth While Being Devoured By Fire Ants

So nuclear explosion or heads chopped off won't stop a cockroach but some fire ants can? Fascinating. Anyhow, the real drama after the drama starts around 10:18 seconds into the video...

OMG! After giving my fire ant colony an additional ant farm, I fed some live cockroaches. What happens in this video may shock you!

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Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

Fascinating! Think of the possibilities of these cockroach-inspired robots. We didn't even realize how flexible and agile cockroaches were!...

How can robots learn to stabilize on rough terrain, walk upside down, do gymnastic maneuvers in air and run into walls without harming themselves? Robert Full takes a look at the incredible body of the cockroach to show what it can teach robotics engineers.

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