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Cuttlefish suckers gripped stiffer plates harder than softer ones in a Wageningen pull test
Wageningen biomechanists found microscopic pillars on the rim of a cuttlefish sucker, then measured how hard dissected arms clung to plates of varying roughness and stiffness in a water tank. Plate stiffness is what moved the reported forces.
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