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 are wizards of camouflage. Adept at blending in with their surroundings, cuttlefish are known to have a diverse range of body patterns and can switch between them almost instantaneously.
(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 ...
It’s well known that cuttlefish and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their skin thanks to that skin’s unique structure. But according to a new paper published in the journal ...
A wise professor once told me that, "If God intended to make the perfect creature in his own image, then God is a squid." While some may call this a slight exaggeration—everyone knows that, by that ...
The childhood home of a young cuttlefish (a sea animal related to the octopus) can give them an advantage later in life, new research suggests. If the soft sea creatures grow up in a more complex ...