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 ...

A cuttlefish drifting over a reef looks like a small, soft-bodied relative of the squid and octopus, which is exactly what it is. But when it moves in to feed, it can put on one of the strangest ...

Few animals put on a show quite like a cuttlefish. In the space of a heartbeat, its skin can shift from mottled sand to inky black, then send rippling bands of color racing down its body like light ...

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 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 ...

A small team of marine biologists at the University of Bristol, in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Regional Research and Innovation Agency of West Papua, Indonesia, has found that wild ...

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 ...

The two males began displaying the bizarre posturing of cuttlefish aggression: raising stiff arms, dilating their w-shaped pupils, and flashing skin colors. "They have a whole repertoire of behaviors ...

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 ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Have you ever seen a cuttlefish walk? If you stop by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Tentacles” exhibit, you might. The aquarium is one of a handful in the country to display flamboyant cuttlefish ...