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, 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 ...

(CN) — Sometimes called the “chameleon of the sea,” the cuttlefish, like the unrelated land-based reptile, can rapidly change the color and pattern of its skin to blend into its surroundings to avoid ...

A new study suggests that the European cuttlefish may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific visual features from its local environment, and visual cues relating to ...

When Ruby Gillman dives into the ocean for the first time, she’s (and everyone around her) is shocked by her immediate transformation into a hulking tentacled monster. Growing up is tough no matter ...

Their camouflage seems almost magical, but scientists have observed some tricks the cephalopods use to blend in with their surroundings. By Veronique Greenwood Put a cuttlefish on the spot — or, to be ...

Here's a tongue-twister for you: Crafty cuttlefish can complete contours to carefully choose camouflage. What this means, without all the alliteration, is that the visual systems of these squidlike ...

National News The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick Consider the cocktail umbrella. Like their larger counterparts, these wee things can be furled and unfurled easily. Once you ...

A new study by City, University of London and others suggests that the European cuttlefish (sepia officinalis) may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific visual ...