Cuttlefish skin is interesting in many ways: it functions as a display system, camouflage device, texture generator, and ...

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 ...

A breathtaking underwater encounter has offered a rare look at one of the ocean's most remarkable creatures. The footage, ...

Cuttlefish, along with other cephalopods like octopus and squid, are masters of disguise, changing their skin color and texture to blend in with their underwater surroundings. Now, in a study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unique ability of cuttlefish, squid and octopuses to hide by imitating the colors and texture of their environment has fascinated natural scientists since the time of Aristotle. Uniquely among all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...