Nature: The Changing Power of The Cuttlefish Might Just Inspire Something Different and Amazing

To become almost invisible to the human eye, the cuttlefish can change their color and camouflage themselves. "Cuttle fish are known to have a diverse range of body patterns and they can switch between the almost instantaneously" says one report. But the question is, How is the cuttlefish able to do this? There is a special cell found under the skin of the cuttlefish called the chromatophore, the cuttlefish uses this cell to change its color. Chromatophore contain sacs that are full of colored pigment and that are surrounded by tiny muscles. 

To camouflage itself, the cuttlefish sends signal to contract the muscles around the sacs. Then the sacs and the pigment with them expand, and the cuttlefish quickly changes its color and pattern. this skill posses by this creature is not only used by cuttlefish to change its color but it also uses it to impress potential mates and perhaps communicate.

Engineers at the university of Bristol, England, built an artificial cuttlefish skin. They sandwiched disks of black rubber between small devices that function like cuttlefish muscles. When the researchers applied electricity to the skin, the devices flattened and expanded the black disks, darkening and changing the color of the artificial skin.
According to Engineer Jonathan Rossiter Research on cuttlefish muscles "The soft structures that nature is so good at making" could lead to clothing that changes color in a fraction of a second. Engineer Rossiter says that people might wear cuttlefish-inspired clothes for camouflage- or simply for fashion.


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