NEW YORK, NY — Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the ...

Cuttlefish wave their expressive tentacles in four distinctive dancelike motions, a new study finds—possibly to communicate visually and by vibration. These marine invertebrates, which have eight ...

Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the camouflaging dwarf ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. A person might wear ...

Cuttlefish, along with other cephalopods like octopus and squid, are masters of disguise, changing their skin color and texture to blend in with their underwater surroundings. Now, in a study ...

Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey. By Richard Kemeny In May 2023, Matteo Santon was filming cuttlefish in ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...

People have different tastes. It turns out that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish do too. These soft-bodied cephalopods have proteins on suckers along their tentacles that allow them to “taste” by ...

A surprising experiment revealed the cuttlefish's ability to be at the intelligence table as it passed a test. Cuttlefish were found to be capable of delaying gratification, and this capacity to wait ...

Cuttlefish are one of the most curious species in our oceans. Firstly, despite their name, they’re not fish, but rather, they’re cephalopods. Many people probably don’t even realize that it’s possible ...