Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but ...

Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves.

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

Cuttlefish are strange animals with some strange means of communication. Now, these cephalopods have been recorded using their arms in a way that looks like they are gesturing to each other – adding a ...

Good things come to those who wait—especially for the cuttlefish hanging out with Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. For the past decade, Schnell ...

Some male cuttlefish seem to squirt out ink to enhance their courtship displays, offering the first evidence that cephalopod ink has uses beyond just fighting and defence against predators. Receive a ...

A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers just ...

Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...