Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...

Cuttlefish are strange animals with some strange means of communication. Now, these cephalopods have been recorded using their arms in a way that looks like they are gesturing to each other – adding a ...

Cuttlefish aren't wearing 3D glasses to enjoy state-of-the-art movie theater technology, but rather to help scientists better understand how they see the world. It turns out that when it comes to ...

Cuttlefish can rapidly learn from experience and adapt their eating behavior accordingly, a new study has shown. When cuttlefish know that shrimp -- their favourite food -- will be available in the ...

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 ...

You might have seen videos of octopuses opening jars or heard rumors of their intelligence. It turns out they aren’t the only tentacled mollusks with an impressive skill set. Scientists have found ...

A new study published this month outlined how cuttlefish can pass the "marshmallow test," a version of which was popularized in the viral TikTok patience snack challenge When it comes to food, ...

Duke biologist Sarah Zylinski wants to better understand how cuttlefish see the world. Like their relatives octopus and squid, cuttlefish are master camouflagers—and Zylinski says you can learn ...

Cuttlefish, with their blimp-shaped bodies and eight squiggly arms, don’t age like people do. Sexual maturity tends to come late for them—about three-quarters of the way through their two-year lives, ...

Some cuttlefish absolutely refuse to wear 3-D glasses. These relatives of squid and octopuses have blimplike bodies that end in a ring of eight arms topped by two prominent eyes. It’s not hard to ...

Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of specific events typically declines with age.