Name: Animal Armour
Uploaded: 2021
Duration: 50 min 1 s
Description: There are many ways to defend yourself, you can run, fly, fight, but some animals have changed their entire body plans so they don't have to. Tortoises carry a fortress with them, armadillos can roll into a ball, sunfish have bulletproof thick skin, and echidnas are covered in spines.

There are many ways to defend yourself, you can run, fly, fight, but some animals have changed their entire body plans so they don't have to. Tortoises carry a fortress with them, armadillos can roll into a ball, sunfish have bulletproof thick skin, and echidnas are covered in spines.

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Discover how creatures from tortoises and armadillos to sunfish and echidnas turned their bodies into built-in protection. This film connects ancient evolutionary defenses with the surprising engineering behind shells, scales, and spines, revealing why nature still outperforms human armor. Sign up to see the science and spectacle behind these extraordinary survival strategies.

Nature's living shields reveal evolution's most formidable designs.

There are many ways to defend yourself, you can run, fly, fight, but some animals have changed their entire body plans so they don't have to.