Mercedes based the shape of its bionic car prototype on a tropical fish called the "boxfish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Coolest Concept Cars 2006 © Aston...] Reference

Dottie, a boxfish who lives at a British aquarium, passes the time playing with a giant die, her only “companion.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoos: Boredom behind bars] Reference

Mercedes engineers constructed a model of the boxfish, put it in a wind tunnel in Germany, found it to be unusually aerodynamic and turned the idea behind the model into a vehicular prototype.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coolest Concept Cars 2006 © Aston...] Reference

Dottie, a boxfish who lives at a British aquarium, passes the time playing with a giant die, her only "companion.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Daimler-Chrysler's designers and engineers scoured nature for the best organism on which to base their vehicle and came up with the boxfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

Unbelievably, aquarium officials admitted that they had hoped Dottie might eventually come to see the die as a mature and friendly adult boxfish.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Only problem is that the exoskeleton might not work, since boxfish don't have head on collisions with other boxfish (or anything else), and they're a bit more forgiving in that their materials are soft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

Before dinner, we went for a night dive with Vybol and Mark ... we didn't see anything too crazy (crabs, a boxfish, a blue spotted ray, and a weird flagella type thing ... and we got bitten by some "sea lice"), but night dives are always fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

2005 Mercedes-Benz's Bionic Concept that was inspired by the boxfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

There were tons of big and beautiful scorpionfish (I would make Chris, my DM from Koh Tao, proud with how I can spot them now), lionfish, morey eels, white eyed eels, honeycomb eels (we had never seen the last two before in Thailand), several green turtles, nudibranches, a large sole, a massive and freaky looking black frogfish with a black and white tongue, spotted boxfish, flounders, large octopus, schools of batfish and many giant pufferfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference