Desert adaptations ripe with biomimicry inspiration include: dodging or managing heat, and storing water. How can humans use these ideas for restorative climate change solutions?

As we end the Loggerhead sea turtle nesting season, let’s see how the biomimicry of this ancient reptile inspire the future of snow skiing and perhaps your iPhone case.

Akin to Marylin Monroe’s skirt incident, the jellyfish’s creates both upward, downward and side motion.

The grebe’s unique foot design and paddling motion lifts the four-pound bird out of the water for up to seven seconds a distance of 65 ft. at almost nine mph without any wing thrust.

The fluctuating, symphonic buzz of locusts, the splashing water of a nearby bathing robin, and the piercing beams of the sunshine remind me it’s July again in the Midwest. So what can humans learn about sustainably keeping cool from the three-tiered thermal regulation system of the bottlenose dolphin?

The butterfly is just one of many organisms that implement structural color. The butterfly’s structural color provides inspiration for efficient solar cells and could be expanded to other photonics systems or into the field of magnetics and optics. What else will Nature teach us in 2017?

Much like the mysteries of Rudolf’s red nose, the Echidna’s snout could provide humans with ways for navigation, small scale discovery, or new methods of scanning objects.  How else can you imagine this sustainable technology be used? 

#Optoutside on Black Friday and pause to observe the squirrels and other tailed creatures. What could we learn from the squirrel's multifunctional tail? How could we use Biomimicry to engineer similar features into human design?