So to our blueprint, we need to add tuned spines.

Let's slow it down and you can see the spines in action.

And these spines don't always drive you to make the best choices.

The books also have high packed LEDs on the spines. So it's all display.

But of course, we can deal with that because we can produce artificial spines.

They bite right through the needle sharp spines to reach the surprisingly juicy flesh

I must look rather strange to you, all covered in spines, without even a face.

And where they have a problem with this kind of mesh, because they don't have spines.

The crabs are missing spines, so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain.

Now just because we have a distributed foot and spines doesn't mean you can climb vertical surfaces.

There are short sensory barbels around the head, together with short, backward pointing spines on the gill covers.

We can make spines that catch on simulated debris and collapse on removal to easily pull them out.

The larvae typically have protective spines on the head, over the gills, and in the pelvic and pectoral fins.

We did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs, as you see here, and then we tested them.

I may just be a slow moving ball of spines, but don't let my calm adult exterior fool you.

These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.

Some of this organization is found among the heliozoa, but those lack central capsules and only produce simple scales and spines.

The next step is to make compliant toes, and try to add spines and claws and set it for dry adhesives.

I pulled a pinfish, they're called, with sharp dorsal spines, up too hard and fast, and I blinded myself in one eye.

It is large and heavy bodied with a dorsal crest of short spines running from the base of the neck to the end of the tail.

And one of the other things I'd been interested in and obsessed with over the years is spines and skeletons, having collected a couple of hundred.

So if you look carefully at this, what you see is that they have spines and until a few weeks ago, no one knew what they did.

RF So if you look carefully at this, what you see is that they have spines and until a few weeks ago, no one knew what they did.

One day when I was only seven years old and fishing, I pulled a pinfish, they're called, with sharp dorsal spines, up too hard and fast, and I blinded myself in one eye.

They die of HlV, they die of hepatitis C, they die of infections of their heart valves, they die of infections of their brains, of their spines, of their hearts, of their bloodstream.

This family includes groupers and coral cod (not related to true cod), which are all characterised by having three spines on the gill cover and a large mouth lined with more than one row of sharp teeth.

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.