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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea. Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea, these cephalopods take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before we had the luxuries of modern science, folks used to believe that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea. So in the depths there naturally must be sea cows, sea unicorns, and even sea ...

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