The experts recorded cuttlefish targeting crabs and noticed a striking display that seems to distract the prey’s ...

Cuttlefish may be less well known but are equally armed and fabulous. They're found in oceans all over the world, and both belong to the class Cephalopoda, Greek for “head-foot”—an apt ...

Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses to move and carry objects, the cuttlefish's eight arms are specialized for grasping prey after the cuttlefish captures it with its two ...

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 ...

The discovery disputes the common theory that the cuttlefish uses a form of hypnotization to capture its prey; the prey likely just doesn’t even see the cuttlefish, and rather a confusing patterned ...

Maintaining camouflage while moving is a challenge faced by many pursuit predators. In this study published today in Science ...

In the cuttlefish world, researchers have identified four impressive camouflage techniques that these mollusks use to help them pursue prey and end up with a meal. Cuttlefish have impressive ...

Scientists have captured footage of the sea creatures using four distinct color-shifting techniques to trick their prey Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent A broadclub cuttlefish, the second largest ...

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 ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers at the University of Bristol have found. Maintaining camouflage ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers have found. While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic ...