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    Nature doesn’t merely surprise us. It actually ends up more often than we even realize, prototyping ideas that we’d just as much swear came from a movie. This gallery provides various old lessons in teamwork as well as problem-solving, and passed down plenty of time before we ever put them in textbooks. 1. Octopus toolkits The veined octopus has been filmed collecting split coconut shells and carrying them across the seafloor like luggage. When trouble shows up, it reassembles the halves as a hard shelter. It’s portable armor and proof of deliberate planning. 2. Archerfish “water guns” The archerfish knocks…

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