Scallop underwater (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Scallop underwater

Caption

Due to a regular surface structure on the mussel "Adamussium colbecki" ice adheres to it only very weakly and can be easily washed away by currents.

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MPI-P

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