Cuttlefish aren’t just masters of disguise – they're illusionists of the sea. Researchers discovered that broadclub cuttlefish use a dazzling display of downward-moving stripes on their skin to sneak ...

A new study has revealed that common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed gratification, a trait previously thought to be exclusive to intelligent vertebrates. Researchers adapted the ...

The cuttlefish brain can handle input from a variety of senses, including sight, smell, and even "sound" (in the form of pressure waves). According to some scientists studying cephalopod learning ...

For decades, scientists have marveled at the intelligence of animals, from problem-solving primates to dolphins that ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary ...

squid and cuttlefish) and the decapod crustaceans or, for short, decapods (including crabs, lobsters and crayfish). We have also evaluated the potential welfare implications of current commercial ...

Most people can recognize a squid, even if they’ve only seen the cartoon version on Spongebob Squarepants. Cuttlefish may be less well known but are equally armed and fabulous. They're found in ...

Cuttlefish, like octopuses, have such fine control of the muscles in their skin ... a large nerve cluster that governs breathing and movement functions in the cephalopod’s mantle, control hydrostats.

By placing squid pigments into a photovoltaic cell, researchers revealed the animals' incredible color-matching ability may ...

The cephalopods. Squid, octopus and cuttlefish; filthy con artists, the lot of them. They communicate with each other, and with both predators and prey, using dazzling patterns of shifting colour ...

The Chilean Congress recently passed a bill regulating the catch of the giant squid and specifically banning trawling, with perpetrators facing fines of some US$ 38.000.