Cuttlefish have abilities and senses that are alien to us humans. They can change their appearance in a split second, mimicking floating vegetation or rocks on the seafloor. When danger looms, ...

Even if you don’t care much for marine invertebrates, you gotta love Cephalopods. Squid, octopus, nautilus, cuttlefish, they have the stylish panache and quirky evolutionary innovations that other ...

When Ruby Gillman dives into the ocean for the first time, she’s (and everyone around her) is shocked by her immediate transformation into a hulking tentacled monster. Growing up is tough no matter ...

IT is generally recognized that the cuttlebone not only serves the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis (L.), as a skeleton but also gives it buoyancy. The cuttlebone contains gas spaces which give it a ...

Have you ever seen a cuttlefish walk? If you stop by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Tentacles” exhibit, you might. The aquarium is one of a handful in the country to display flamboyant cuttlefish ...

Ling Li has a lesson in one of his mechanical engineering courses on how brittle materials like calcium carbonate behave under stress. In it, he takes a piece of chalk composed of the compound and ...