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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers observed the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) routinely wave its arms in four flashy gestures. (Damocean/Getty ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...

This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this in cuttlefish, a reminder that even much-studied species still have some surprising secrets. Cuttlefish are the chameleons of the sea: Put one ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Cuttlefish look like something from another planet with their weird W-shaped pupils and tentacles, but the truly bizarre ...

A study published inProceedings of the Royal Society Bhas revealed that common cuttlefish can pass a test of delayed gratification—a benchmark of cognitive ability typically applied to children, ...