A cuttlefish drifting over a reef looks like a small, soft-bodied relative of the squid and octopus, which is exactly what it is. But when it moves in to feed, it can put on one of the strangest ...

A small team of marine biologists at the University of Bristol, in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Regional Research and Innovation Agency of West Papua, Indonesia, has found that wild ...

Few animals put on a show quite like a cuttlefish. In the space of a heartbeat, its skin can shift from mottled sand to inky black, then send rippling bands of color racing down its body like light ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...