Multi-link catfish skull may hold key to better underwater robots

Multi-link catfish skull may hold key to better underwater robots

By Ben Coxworth

Source: newatlas

12/1/2020

Even though they don't have flexible tongues, catfish are still able to rotate captured prey within their mouths. A new understanding of how they're able to do so could ultimately lead to more dextrous underwater robots, or other technological advances.

Led by postdoctoral fellow Aaron M. Olsen, a team at Rhode Island's Brown University started by filming captive channel catfish as they caught and swallowed prey. The scientists used a motion capture technique known as X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology, which allowed them to actually see inside the animals' skulls while they ate.

Catfish, Channel

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