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Nature’s Secret Weapon Against Microbes: Squid Skin
There's a compound found in squid skin that they use to change color and protect their cells, but it could also help us fight some of the most common disease-causing microbes out there.
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9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
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Nature’s Secret Weapon Against Microbes: Squid Skin
There's a compound found in squid skin that they use to change color and protect their cells, but it could also help us fight some of the most common disease-causing microbes out there.
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8 Incredible Things We Can Learn From Octopuses
Octopuses have tons of strange and amazing adaptations that help them live their best lives underwater. And those incredible traits could help us in many ways.
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TED-Ed
TED-ED: How squids outsmart their predators - Carly Anne York
There are about 500 species of squid, and they live in all the world's oceans, making them a reliable food source for whales, dolphins, sharks, seabirds, fish - and even other squid. As a result, the squid's most extraordinary...
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How Do Animals Change Color?
Changing colors -- it’s not just for chameleons! Many species of octopuses, squid and cuttlefish can do it, as well as a few insects, and even mammals and birds. Find out what feats of biology different animals use to change their...
Curated Video
Twirly the Veiled Chameleon's ballistic tongue
Twirly is a female veiled chameleon. She has an amazing ballistic tongue and the pigment in the layers of her skin can change. She loves her super meal worms and gets upset if I don't feed her enough. Having the camera in her face...
Curated Video
The Amazing World of Animal Color Changing
The presence of chromatophores allows some ectotherms change color in response to external stimuli, such as sunlight or a threatening predator. Learn how chromatophores function and why only cold-blooded animals are able to change...
Curated Video
Octopuses: Adaptations, Behavior, and Reproduction
This video provides a comprehensive overview of octopuses, also known as octopods. It discusses their characteristics, adaptability, and intelligence. It also touches on their solitary nature, mating behaviors, and reproductive...
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Mitk12: Squid Skin With a Mind of Its Own
When someone cuts the nerves from a squid brain to the skin, something unexpected happens with the tiny pouches of colored pigment, called chromatophores. Emily takes you behind this phenomenon, and how it can be explained and modeled on...