Cuttlefish are among the ocean's most adaptable hunters, capable of changing their skin color in less than 200 milliseconds ...

Cuttlefish change color by manipulating millions of pigment cells, called chromatophores, which act like color pixels in a television display. Each chromatophore holds a single pigment, and the cells ...

Cephalopods, like the octopus, have specialized arms and suckers, but how these structures evolved from the simple bodies of their mollusk ancestors remains a mystery. Researchers from the University ...

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

Join two friends on a coastal fishing and diving adventure as they search for fresh seafood in deeper water and shallow reefs ...

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 ...

The world’s first genetically modified pygmy cuttlefish whose body emits light (fluorescence) has been created. Researchers ...

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, ...

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.

The flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia tullbergi) earned its moniker for a reason. Like many cephalopods, this cuttlefish can change its appearance with remarkable flexibility and speed. Sometimes it ...

Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific events happened—right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found. The results, published this week in the journal Proceedings of ...