Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but ...

Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves.

A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers just ...

Good things come to those who wait—especially for the cuttlefish hanging out with Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. For the past decade, Schnell ...

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 ...

Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the camouflaging dwarf ...