CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Zipping through water like shimmering arrowheads, cuttlefish are swift, sure hunters — death on eight limbs and two waving tentacles for small creatures in their vicinity. They morph to match the ...

With one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all the invertebrates, the inquisitive cuttlefish could teach us about the evolution of intelligence throughout the animal kingdom—even among ...

For some time, engineers have been experimenting with robotic tentacles modelled on the octopus. Now they're being inspired by their camouflage. Cephalopods -- cuttlefish, octopus, and squid -- are ...

It turns out that camouflage isn’t the only talent these cephalopods have. By Veronique Greenwood Zipping through water like shimmering arrowheads, cuttlefish are swift, sure hunters — death on eight ...

It’s hard to stump a cuttlefish. The eight-armed relative of the squid and octopus is a genius with disguise, displaying an ability to blend into nearly any background. While swimming along the sandy ...

In 2011, Justine Allen and Derya Akkaynak were scuba diving in the Aegean Sea in coastal Turkey. They were recording video to study cuttlefish camouflage when they spotted a pair of the creatures ...

Researchers observed the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) routinely wave its arms in four flashy gestures. Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially ...

The US Army has pondered the development of camouflage that mimics how cephalopods rapidly change their colour and patterning. They call it 'signature management'.