Cuttlefish can change colours and textures for camouflage purposes. Researchers found cuttlefish communicate by waving their limbs. A study identified four distinct waving patterns among ...

Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially letting them communicate visually and by vibration. These marine invertebrates, which have eight sucker ...

Researchers just spotted cunning cuttlefish waving to one another with their tentacles, a previously unobserved behavior that pushes the boundaries of the creature’s intelligence. Cuttlefish ...

Cuttlefish, such as this broadclub cuttlefish off the island of Cebu in the Philippines, can change the color and pattern of their skin to trick potential predators and prey. Photograph by ...

In this study published today in Science Advances, the team uncovered a novel form of motion camouflage, whereby the broadclub cuttlefish pass dark stripes downwards across their head and arms to ...

By placing cameras at a crab’s eye level, researchers at the University of Bristol discovered broadclub cuttlefish can disguise hunting manoeuvres that prey recognise. They do this by shimmering ...

Cuttlefish aren’t just masters of disguise – they’re illusionists of the sea. Researchers discovered that broadclub cuttlefish use a dazzling display of downward-moving stripes on their skin to sneak ...

They’re cuttlebones from cuttlefish. Lightweight, firm, yet brittle, they are the internal shell that runs the length of the body. Each is the remnant of a single cuttlefish, which typically ...

Marine ecologists led by Matteo Santon documented the Broadclub cuttlefish's remarkable hunting strategies in the wild, including imitating corals and leaves to deceive crabs. The study ...

A broadclub cuttlefish, the second largest cuttlefish species, blends into the ocean floor. Nick Hobgood via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Cuttlefish are known deceivers. The sea creatures ...

Using a GoPro camera, a plexiglass plate and live crabs, the researchers filmed the Broadclub cuttlefish around the islands of Kri and Mansuar in eastern Indonesia. In all instances, when within ...

You, precious crab, are about to become dinner. A group of scientists have described the four distinct hunting displays of the broadclub cuttlefish in a paper recently published in the journal Ecology ...