Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey. By Richard Kemeny In May 2023, Matteo Santon was filming cuttlefish in ...

"We made artificial substrates that varied in roughness and stiffness based on what the cuttlefish are known to attach to in the wild (like crabs, shrimp or fish)," explained van Oorschot. "Then we ...

There are more than 120 species of cuttlefish. They are found in the order Sepiida and are grouped into six families divided between two suborders. Depending on the species, cuttlefish range in length ...

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 ...

Cuttlefish wave their expressive tentacles in four distinctive dancelike motions, a new study finds—possibly to communicate visually and by vibration. These marine invertebrates, which have eight ...