Watch this squid turn itself transparent

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/02/watch-this-squid-turn-itself-t.html

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[MaiqTheLiar]

I saw a school of these guys do this on Cozumel.
They’re some kind of superhero, or something.

[Akimbo_NOT]

If we could do this Violet would be a more popular Halloween costume than Edna.

[jacob_ewing]

That seems a bit more like “dark translucent to light translucent”.

[kentkb]

Spent an hour at the Monterey Aquarium viewing their “Tentacles” exhibit.
One of my favorite ones yet. Go see it.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-exhibits/exhibits/tentacles

[Boundegar]

Big deal, liquid crystal technology is, what, twenty years old? Thirty?

[GulliverFoyle]

Cephalopods are about half a billion years old.

Chromatophore

[Fef]

It just ran out of ink.

[AnthonyI]

[CanadianBeaver]

Isn’t there a hit song with the title “shake that squid”?

[beep54orama]

I think that is “Shake That Squid, Mama!”