CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Researchers observed the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) routinely wave its arms in four flashy gestures. Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially ...

Zipping through water like shimmering arrowheads, cuttlefish are swift, sure hunters — death on eight limbs and two waving tentacles for small creatures in their vicinity. They morph to match the ...

With one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all the invertebrates, the inquisitive cuttlefish could teach us about the evolution of intelligence throughout the animal kingdom—even among ...

Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea. Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea, these cephalopods take ...

For some time, engineers have been experimenting with robotic tentacles modelled on the octopus. Now they're being inspired by their camouflage. Cephalopods -- cuttlefish, octopus, and squid -- are ...

It turns out that camouflage isn’t the only talent these cephalopods have. By Veronique Greenwood Zipping through water like shimmering arrowheads, cuttlefish are swift, sure hunters — death on eight ...

In 2011, Justine Allen and Derya Akkaynak were scuba diving in the Aegean Sea in coastal Turkey. They were recording video to study cuttlefish camouflage when they spotted a pair of the creatures ...

Talk about showing your feminine side. On one flank, a courting male cuttlefish looks like a normal male of his species, with tigerlike stripes extending horizontally down his body. But on the other, ...