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How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers
Yoram Yekutieli1, German Sumbre, Tamar Flash
1Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. yoramkt@cc.huji.ac.il
Biologist (London, England)
|December 18, 2002
Abstract:
The octopus is amazingly flexible and shows exceptional control and coordination in all its movements. It seems remarkable to us skeletal creatures that the octopus achieves all this without a single bone.