Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch — and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

Cuttlefish can change colour in 200 milliseconds, as fast as a human can blink. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils, which are ...

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 ...

Their camouflage seems almost magical, but scientists have observed some tricks the cephalopods use to blend in with their surroundings. By Veronique Greenwood Put a cuttlefish on the spot — or, to be ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY — Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the ...

Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the camouflaging dwarf ...

Put on those vintage red and blue 3D glasses, settle in with a bucket of your favorite snack, and get ready to enjoy a movie, just like the good old days. But in this case, the audience members are ...

As a kid, Sabrina Imbler loved the ocean. They'd swim and snorkel, following around parrotfish in the water. Later, they tried to learn everything... Dancing yeti crabs, morphing cuttlefish, other ...