“Biodiversity is more complex than any human invention, it’s an incredible library, but most of it remains unknown”.
Thomas Lovejoy, inventor of the term: “biological diversity”.
This statement comes from a man who has surveyed the Amazon since 1960. He is a land researcher. His subject of study, he has it in front of his eyes. What about an oceanographer? Surveying bottom of the ocean is not easy. If “most of (the forest) remains unknown”, what about the underwater world? In fact, 91% of the species have to be discovered.

In short, about nature inspiration, we have not seen much yet.

Egg might be the greatest inspiration of nature and is undoubtedly the landmark event in the history of life on earth. Without sexual reproduction, no human.
4 billion years ago, marine organisms (bacteria) reproduced only by dividing into two equal parts. High-performance techniques having two drawbacks: it does not allow the development of complex structures and produces only perfectly identical clones disappearing in bulk at the slightest change in the environment. 1.5 billion years later, nature, inspired, invents the egg, the product of sexual reproduction. By mixing the genes of two partners, the egg made it possible to infinitely multiply the diversity of individuals and the development of complex organisms.
And so of the (wo)man.

After the egg, nature did not stop inventing. Being bound to survive at any price is perhaps a good source of inspiration.
Shapes, colors, false tracks, mimicry, speed, slowness, size, tiny, power, fragility, fins, webbed feet, vision, hearing, the nocturnal, the diurnal, the solitary, the group, the reproduction, the hermaphrodites … Head is spinning.

The Pterois antennata and the Pterois miles are a good demonstration of what nature is able of.

How to describe all these inspirations? We lacks ideas. We get hold of the land to describe the ocean : lionfish, angelfish, scorpionfish, surgeonfish, crocodilefish, stonefish, butterfly fish. Even cowfish. Nature inspiration is beyond our imagination. The banner fish (photos below) is an example. Sometimes, it would be better remembering the scientific name. Banner fish is : acuminatus.

The acuminatus : immediately, it has more pace!