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What group includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish?

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  1. 1 Easy

    How does a squid swim at top speed?

    Answer: Water jets

    Why: Some flying squid jet right out of the sea and glide more than 30 m through the air.

  2. 2 Medium

    What makes the Hawaiian bobtail squid glow?

    Answer: Bacteria

    Why: Every dawn the squid vents about 90% of its glowing bacteria, and the rest multiply back by nightfall.

  3. 3 Hard

    Which body part became the cone snail's venom harpoon?

    Answer: A tooth

    Why: Spare harpoons wait in a sac in the snail's throat, and a fresh one is loaded into its proboscis for each hunt.

  4. 4 Easy

    What can an octopus do with its suckers besides grip?

    Answer: Taste

    Why: The sucker sensors pick up molecules that barely dissolve in water, so an octopus tastes things by touching them.

  5. 5 Medium

    Which sea snail shells served as money in Africa and Asia?

    Answer: Cowries

    Why: The Chinese character 貝, used in words for money and wealth, began as a drawing of a cowrie shell.

  6. 6 Hard

    Which spiral best fits a nautilus shell?

    Answer: Logarithmic spiral

    Why: Across 80 museum shells, the length-to-height ratio averaged about 1.31, well short of the golden ratio's 1.618.

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