Your skin can change texture, and when it does, it’s really not that impressive. You might get goosebumps when you get cold. You might wrinkle your nose at a bad smell or stretch your lips into a ...

There are more than 120 species of cuttlefish. They are found in the order Sepiida and are grouped into six families divided between two suborders. Depending on the species, cuttlefish range in length ...

Cuttlefish can do more than just change their colour patterns to camouflage themselves. Roger Hanlon and his colleagues at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, presented ...

These masters of disguise are some of the most curious creatures of the sea. We talked to Senior Aquarist Chris Payne from the Monterey Bay Aquarium to find out more. A member of the cephalopod family ...

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish can change their skin’s colors, patterns, and textures in ways not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom. You see what looks to be a clump of seaweed, and then it ...

Papillae expression for camouflage in the giant Australian cuttlefish. Credit: Roger T. Hanlon When it comes to blending in, cuttlefish are like chameleons of the sea. In fact, their color-changing ...

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 ...

Before we had the luxuries of modern science, folks used to believe that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea. So in the depths there naturally must be sea cows, sea unicorns, and even sea ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The animal kingdom is home to all manner of weird and wonderful defense ...

Drag cuttlefish Some male cuttlefish are able to keep a potential mate to themselves by dressing up in drag to deceive competing males. Behavioural ecologist Associate Professor Culum Brown, of ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a dolphin that has mastered the trick of killing cuttlefish and elaborately preparing them for a meal. It was a great story that highlighted just how intelligent ...