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The Squid's Beak, It's Like a Parrot's Beek
A squid beak is made of citin, which is the hardest material known to man. It's a mixture of proteins and polymes that makes insect exor skeletons and crab shells. So this is what they use to rip their prey into pieces. Squid are the reason that we know how human nervous systems work. And in 19 63, squid won the noble prize for physiology and medicine. We no tt, they only ever give it to one squid. They can do experiments on them - like sticking electrodes into nerve cells so you can find out how nerves communicate from one end to another. This had never been done before because it wasn't possible to poke a little electrode into a human
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