M ost people can recognize a squid, even if they’ve only seen the cartoon version on Spongebob Squarepants. Cuttlefish may be ...

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 ...

Put a cuttlefish on the spot — or, to be more exact, a series of spots — and it will disappear. These relatives of the squid and the octopus mimic the color and texture of their surroundings ...

Almost all cephalopods—the class of ocean dwellers that includes octopuses, cuttlefish, and squids—have an incredible ability not just to change the color and patterns on their skin, but also ...

Leucophores are mostly found in cuttlefish and octopuses, but there are some female squid of the genus Sepioteuthis that have leucophores that they can 'tune" to only scatter certain wavelengths ...

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, like this California two-spot octopus, use specialized proteins in their suckers to “taste” with their arms.

Certain cephalopods like cuttlefish, octopuses, and squid have the ability to camouflage themselves by making themselves transparent and/or changing their coloration.

Cuttlefish are more solitary animals, but they definitely watch each other when they are feeding, Peyla said. Another doctoral student in the Wardill Lab, Rachael Kaspar, studies bobtail squid ...