Be one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realscience/ Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-natures-wildest-weapons Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Credits: Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Editor: Leany Muñoz Illustrator: Elfy Chiang (https://www.elfylandstudios.com/) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (null) Imagery courtesy of Getty Images 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