Cephalopods are a group of soft-bodied marine mollusks that include cuttlefish, octopuses, squid and nautiluses. Many of ...

Some animals have camouflaging abilities that can seem too good to be true. One ocean conservation group has now shared footage of the broadclub cuttlefish, showcasing the "master of disguise" and its ...

Marine biologist Alex Schnell has spent her career probing the inner lives of cephalopods, and what she has found in those unblinking eyes challenges some deeply held assumptions about which animals ...

Cuttlefish can transform their appearance in less than 200 milliseconds, using millions of pigment-containing structures controlled by their nervous system. The bizarre part is that they are thought ...

Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal Ecology, including mimicking benign ocean objects like a ...

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, ...

From May to August, if you head into the water around Point Lowly, South Australia, it will be a chilly 12 degrees Celsius. But you'll be able to observe what look like aliens — hundreds, even ...

Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of specific events typically declines with age.

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Duke biologist Sarah Zylinski wants to better understand how cuttlefish see the world. Like their relatives octopus and squid, cuttlefish are master camouflagers—and Zylinski says you can learn ...

Cuttlefish, along with octopuses and squid, are cephalopods—animals from an ancient branch of the tree of life that have been trolling the oceans for more than 500 million years. Cuttlefish were ...