The animal kingdom is home to all manner of weird and wonderful defense tactics, but the camouflage skills of cuttlefish, squid and octopuses surely rank among the most impressive.These masters of ...

Even if you don’t care much for marine invertebrates, you gotta love Cephalopods. Squid, octopus, nautilus, cuttlefish, they have the stylish panache and quirky evolutionary innovations that other ...

Before we had the luxuries of modern science, folks used to believe that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea. So in the depths there naturally must be sea cows, sea unicorns, and even sea ...

Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News are presenting a series of stories, photos and videos this week about shells and shelling in Southwest Florida − from shell art to shelling ...

The flashy Flamboyant Cuttlefish is among the most famous of the cephalopods (octopus, squid, and cuttlefish) - but it is widely misunderstood by its legions of fans. A new article sets the record ...

Each cuttlefish species has a distinct shape, size and ridge pattern in their buoyancy bone. Cuttlefish bones from Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia, are displayed. Select an ...

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish can change their skin’s colors, patterns, and textures in ways not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom. You see what looks to be a clump of seaweed, and then it ...

They may look soft and squishy, but cuttlefish are fierce fighters, new video reveals. Scientists have captured the first footage of a violent mating battle between European cuttlefish in the Aegean ...

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