Armor

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[Fact Off]

Sugar bacteria

https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2019/06/27/found-a-sweet-way-to-make-things-almost-indestructible/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uovh-fas062719.php

https://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/shedding-light-almost-indestructible-archaeal-pili

Chiton armor (with embedded eyes)

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)00305-8.pdf

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/952?related-urls=yes&legid=sci;350/6263/952

Figure of their vision: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/350/6263/952/F3.large.jpg

http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/ChitonEyeCommentary.pdf

https://news.mit.edu/2015/sea-creature-armor-plating-transparent-ceramic-eyes-1119

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/89839/890127373-MIT.pdf?sequence=2

[Ask the Science Couch]

Tail armor/weaponry

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2299

https://eartharchives.org/articles/why-don-t-we-see-more-animals-with-tail-weapons-like-stegosaurus-or-ankylosaurus/index.html

https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/01/arbour-zanno-tail

[Butt One More Thing]

Snail shell

https://massivesci.com/articles/butt-escape-beetles-elegans-slugs-land-snails/

Hank mentions brahminy blind snakes being eaten and pooped out by frogs, but they are actually being eaten by toads. You can read more about that here:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170424-there-are-animals-that-can-survive-being-eaten