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Concord Monitor​

Squid change color like nobody's business – can biomimicry help engineers do the same?
Concord Monitor
The UNH team chose a particular species of squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, because it is easily found in New England waters, and also because it has fewer and larger chromatophores than its more talented brethren, cuttlefish and octopuses, whose chromatic ...

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Granite Geek: A Material That Changes Color Like an Octopus
New Hampshire Public Radio
This paper was talking about how the pigments work in squid because there's a lot of them off the New England coast and because they don't do it quite as complicatedly as cuttlefish and octopuses. So they've been looking at the pigments and how they ...


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