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Lobster sniffing: how lobsters' hairy noses capture smells from the sea

and mantis shrimp.

These feathery or hairy structures are used for more than smelling. Many animals have feathery gills to extract oxygen from water. Copepods, the most abundant animal in the oceans, use them to filter and eat single-celled algae. Many sea creatures use them for swimming, and tiny insects use them to fly.

"While engineers need to design structures to perform specific functions, we are studying organisms that already have a structure, and our job is to figure out how they function," she said.

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Contact: Robert Sanders
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30-Nov-2001

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