Sea cucumbers.
Earthworms of the sea, delicacies of the kitchen, these sedentary marine animals have a remarkable property: the ability to change their tissue structure from fluid to solid, and back again.
For bio-engineers a material with this property is like the Holy Grail, and could lead to innovations such as artificial muscles.
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