Cuttlefish number among the ocean’s ultimate masters of disguise, able to change the color, pattern and even the texture of their skin in an instant to blend into their surroundings. But according to ...

Cuttlefish are masters of disguise. These cephalopods can blend into a wide variety of backgrounds to hide themselves from predators, such as large fish and sharks. Invisibility doesn't always work, ...

When a predator is lurking nearby, holding perfectly still might be a life-saving strategy. But what if the predator can sense electrical signals generated by breathing? According to new findings ...

Christine Bedore at Duke University published a study on how cuttlefish can cloak their electrical fields when faced with the looming threat of a shark attack. Since sharks’ eyes aren’t very useful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computational image analysis of behaving cuttlefish reveals principles of control and development of a biological invisibility cloak. The unique ability of cuttlefish, squid and octopuses to hide by ...

Consider the cuttlefish. According to new research, this cephalopod has a trick hidden up its tentacles — or rather, its large brain. It reveals one surprising aspect of this creature's intelligence: ...

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 ...