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.

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

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 ...

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

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

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 ...

By harnessing electron-beam patterning to control the swelling and contraction of a soft polymer, researchers created a ...

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 ...