Lacking claws , armour , or knife tooth , humans are well-to-do targets for predation . But thanks to our big , beautiful brainiac , we enter out early on how to co - choose the drink down tools of nature ’s top hunter for our own defence — and offense . Here are some of the unspoilt example of applied science mimic nature . Or just straight up stealing from it .
Shark Tooth Sword, Kiribati
picture : imbrettjackson
Calusa shell clubs
photograph : bob reid
Tebute, a Gilbertese shark tooth weapon
picture : Joshua Drew et al./PlosOne
Swordfish bill dagger
picture : mauifishingputters.com
Shark Tooth Sword, Micronesia, Gilbert Island
picture : oceaniaart.com
Bering Sea walrus ivory harpoon point
picture : Herigate vendue
Shark tooth club from the Pacific Islands. Peabody-Essex Museum
picture : Margaret Killjoy
Blue marlin bill dagger with tiger shark teeth
Western Pacific turtle bone axe
Photo : Carter ’s Price Guide to Antiques
Eskimo darts made of ivory and caribou bone
photograph : New World Antiquities
Stingray barb dagger and cassowary bone dagger from New Zealand
Photo : M. A. Lurig
Whale Bone War Club, ca. 1800, Nuu-chah-nulth or Makah
photograph : Travis S.
Bone Blade Knife
Photo : Practical Abstractions
Azilian bone harpoon
Photo : Didier Descouens / Wikimwdia Commons
Eskimo fishing spear made from the horns of a musk ox
Photo : John Tyman
Top photo : Library Of Congress
Images curated by Attila Nagy
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