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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

Flamboyant sexual ornaments serve as conspicuous visual signals optimized to the visual receptors and perception of potential mates. While ...

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 look like something from another planet with their weird W-shaped pupils and tentacles, but the truly bizarre ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - In a tricky display of courting derring-do, a species of cuttlefish living in Sydney harbour woos its mate and fools rivals at one and the same time, all by the colours it flashes.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - In a tricky display of courting derring-do, a species of cuttlefish living in Sydney harbor woos its mate and fools rivals at one and the same time, all by the colors it flashes.