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Master of Disguise Can you find the cuttlefish?

Project Squid Skin – Ocean inspired Camouflage for our Troops

What better way to come up with a new type of camouflage than by going to the pros….the underwater pros. Cephalopod skin, which is found in sea creatures like octopus, squid and cuttlefish, has some primitive optical abilities — their skin has the same light-sensing proteins found in eyes — that allow them to “see”