The sophisticated cephalopods have highly evolved vision and can use jet propulsion to escape predators, but there are a few key differences between squid and cuttlefish.

Cuttlefish bear a curiously flattened cuttlebone, which bird-owners sometimes give as a calcium supplement to their pets. The squid's shell is reduced still further to a stiff yet flexible vestige ...

Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations are booming across the world. These fast-growing, adaptable creatures are perfectly equipped to exploit the gaps left by extreme climate changes and ...

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We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Cuttlefish, squid and octopuses are all cephalopods, a group that evolved over 400 million years ago from a mollusk ancestor. Later, cephalopods evolved appendages in two forms.

"More squid and octopus to eat may seem like a good thing, and in the short run maybe it is. But I'm more worried about the long run," says Dr. Halpern, who was not part of the study. You've read ...

Cuttlefish are more solitary animals, but they definitely watch each other when they are feeding, Peyla said. Another doctoral student in the Wardill Lab, Rachael Kaspar, studies bobtail squid ...

These animals — octopuses, cuttlefish and squid — have much to offer biologists: Cephalopods have unusual genetics, unusual bodies and are unusually intelligent. Euprymna ...

It showed how cuttlefish, a cousin of the squid, used a peculiar and hypnotizing technique to ensnare prey. “I was about 8 at the time and I thought that was the wildest thing I’d ever seen ...

Squid, octopus and cuttlefish populations are booming across the world. These fast-growing, adaptable creatures are perfectly equipped to exploit the gaps left by extreme climate changes and ...