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Scientists find that squid beak is both hard and soft, a material that engineers want to copy
Date:3/27/2008

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According to Waite, the researchers were helped by the fact that squid seem to be moving north from areas where they have been traditionally concentrated, for example deep waters off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. Recently however Humboldt squid have been found in numbers in Southern California waters. Dozens of dead squid have recently washed up on campus beaches, providing the researchers with more beaks to study.


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University of California - Santa Barbara
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