What a #mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-5199634/heart-shaped-mollusc-shell-resembles-fiber-optic-cables

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses: Dakota McCoy et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53110-x

"the structure of the #HeartCockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber #OpticCables to channel light to the #algae living inside it"

#protists #symbiosis #mollusks #molluscs #animals #invertebrates

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Using two fiber-#opticcables to track #whales as they cruise the Arctic @statuses https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1130898/full https://phys.org/news/2023-05-fiber-optic-cables-track-whales-cruise.html