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  • Cuttlefish are caught for food in the Mediterranean and East Asia. In East Asia dried shredded cuttlefish is a highly popular snack food.

Einstein facts:

  • Born 1879 in Ulm, Germany.
  • Recieved 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Known for theory of relativity, physical theory of gravity, space and time.
  • 1939 wrote a letter to President Roosevelt about the possibility German scientists are constructing a powerful bomb using atomic reactions in uranium.
  • Was offered the presidency of the state of Israel in 1952 by state leaders, however he declined.
  • Also in 1952, the element einsteinium was discovered and named in honor of Albert Einstein.
  • Wrote more than fifty scientific papers and non-scientific books before dying in 1955.
  • In 1999, he was named "person of the century" by Time Magazine.
  • "Einstein" is in today's culture a synonym for genius.
Cuttlefish

The Sepia Officinalis, or the Cuttlefish, despite the name, is not actually a fish, but a mollusc. Cuttlefish have high intelligence and have one of the most developed eye system in animal kingdom! On average they grow one foot long with typical colors of mottled black or brown. With eight arms, two tentacles, and a soft body that may change its color, the Cuttlefish is both a fierce predator and master of disguise.

Found mostly in the Meditarrenaen, North and Baltic seas, the Cuttlefish inhabit depths around 200 meters. Its skin changes both color and pattern to mimic the mollusc into the landscape and to elegantly hunt smaller molluscs, crabs, shrimp, and fish.
In camoflauge, the cuttlefish will stalk its prey and at lightning speed shoot out two long tentacles that have suction pads. When the Cuttlefish is in danger, it will spew ink in the water and jet away by spewing water from its body.

Cuttlefish usually live about 18 months and you can age a cuttlefish by noticable white lines on the protruding third arms.

Others facts:
Cuttlefish have blue blood
Cuttlefish have three hearts