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 ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers have found. While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin ...

Cuttlefish don’t overpower their prey — they confuse it. By flashing rhythmic bands of color across their skin, they can ...

A small team of marine biologists at the University of Bristol, in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Regional ...

Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey. By Richard Kemeny In May 2023, Matteo Santon was filming cuttlefish in ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

In the animal kingdom, predators rely on their cunning to capture prey. From inescapable traps to deceptive lures, here are some of the animals with the most crafty ways of capturing their prey.

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers at the University of Bristol have found. Maintaining camouflage while ...