Cuttlefish change color by manipulating millions of pigment cells, called chromatophores, which act like color pixels in a ...

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These intelligent creatures are expert colour-changers and masters of camouflage, and can change shape and texture to look like rocks, sand or seaweed – a spectacular sight to see. Every winter tens ...

Marine biologist Alex Schnell has spent her career probing the inner lives of cephalopods, and what she has found in those ...

Cuttlefish look like something from another planet with their weird W-shaped pupils and tentacles, but the truly bizarre stuff about them goes way beyond their appearance. These creatures have ...

Sophie Cohen-Bodénès and Peter Neri, neuroscientists at École Normale Supérieure, in France, report possible evidence of cuttlefish communicating by waving their 'arms' at one another. Their paper is ...

Cuttlefish, with their blimp-shaped bodies and eight squiggly arms, don’t age like people do. Sexual maturity tends to come late for them—about three-quarters of the way through their two-year lives, ...

Certain species show a remarkable ability to delay gratification, notably great apes, corvids, and parrots, while other species do not (such as rodents, chickens, and pigeons.) Add the cuttlefish to ...

Every winter tens of thousands of giant Australian cuttlefish congregate in SA. Learn where, why and how to swim with them. The giant Australian cuttlefish is exactly what its name suggests – the ...