Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their ...

Scientists have captured footage of the sea creatures using four distinct color-shifting techniques to trick their prey ...

Trying to catch a meal in the animal world can generate a whole host of challenges. You must first find the prey, and then ...

Marine ecologists led by Matteo Santon documented the Broadclub cuttlefish's remarkable hunting strategies in the wild, ...

They named the third display the "branching coral," in which the cuttlefish raised its arms and splayed them in a way reminiscent of a coral while changing its body color to match. The fourth they ...

In the "Branching Coral" display, the cuttlefish raises its two central arms and splays its remaining arms in front of the body while turning yellow and orange. This might serve to help the ...

For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted ...

A critical issue in reef conservation efforts is the slow rate at which corals can recover from damage. Although some branching corals can grow rapidly, most grow only a few centimeters annually ...

During this time, the temperatures remained high. Alex told me that around 90% of the branching corals at Lizard Island died. Even Percy’s “kitchen” – a boulder coral where the ingenious ...

Restoration projects heavily favour quick-growing branching corals. The delicate branches of these corals are more susceptible to becoming fragments of opportunity, and are also easier to ...

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences ...