Holy crap!!! They are looking at making wearable Octopus skin!!! The ultimate mimic has divulged its secrets. Think of the military applications of this.
The mightiest of these morphing creatures, the mimic octopus, contorts its body into a thin ribbon and adopts the colours of a venomous sea serpent to scare predators away. Divers have seen mimic octopuses masquerade as lion fish, sea stars, shrimp and anemones.
When peckish, the octopus takes the form of a lusty crab. Crustaceans fooled by the display end up eaten.
Materials scientists and engineers also have fallen under the octopuses' spell. A team of US researchers, with the aid of octopus expert Roger Hanlon, successfully mimicked the mimic using sheets of rubber and mesh.
