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Turbot fish (Scophthalmus maximus) camouflaged against a gravel seabed, its mottled body blending closely with the surrounding texture and color. A dusty disguise Uganda kobs Blacksmith plover common angel shark measuring worms Orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) seahorse leafy sea dragon
Know how researchers created a synthetic material, elastomers, that can change color and texture to specific voltage change, like that of cephalopods
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Know how researchers created a synthetic material, elastomers, that can change color and texture to specific voltage change, like that of cephalopods
Learn about elastomers that are changeable in colour and texture, much like the skin...
Video: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
All about ray fins: Seahorses, trunkfish, and more
Ray-finned fishes are found in freshwater and saltwater habitats around the world...
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Flatfish
Background matching by a flatfish on a sandy bottom floor.
© southmind/Shutterstock.com
A dusty disguise
Masked hunter (Reduvius personatus) nymph wearing dust and lint as camouflage...
© Ludwig Werle—imageBROKER/Getty Images
Uganda kobs
A pair of Uganda kobs (Kobs kob thomasi) exemplifying countershading.
Leonard Lee Rue III
Blacksmith plover
Blacksmith plover (Vanellus armatus) showing disruptive markings.
Tony Deane/Bruce Coleman Inc.
common angel shark
Common angel shark (Squatina squatina), camouflaged in the sandy bottom...
© macdivers/stock.adobe.com
measuring worms
Measuring worms (family Geometridae) position themselves to look like twigs.
E.S. Ross
Orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus)
An orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) of the Malay peninsula blends in...
E.S. Ross
seahorse
Denise's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) on sea fan (genus Gorgonia).
© alexvarani/Fotolia
leafy sea dragon
Leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.