The cuttlefish is often called the chameleon of the sea, but where the land-based version can only change its color, the sepia-squirting, tentacled one can change its skin texture as well as its tint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their camouflage seems almost magical, but scientists have observed some tricks the cephalopods use to blend in with their surroundings. By Veronique Greenwood Put a cuttlefish on the spot — or, to be ...

These amazing cephalopods can adapt their appearances to match their surroundings—even if their environment is a tacky living room with a checkerboard-patterned floor. But how would a cuttlefish fare ...

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 ...

NARRATOR: Imagine an alien that can float through space, with a giant brain shaped like a doughnut, eight arms growing out of its head, and three hearts pumping blue blood. This alien lives right here ...