A chance encounter with a deeply mysterious cephalopod known as the whip-lash squid has been captured on camera some 1,000 ...

Cephalopod camouflage is among the most dynamic ... "Anatomical basis for camouflaged polarized light communication in squid." Biological Letters 2: 464-496. Mathger, L., Denton, E., ...

Several people went to her rescue and came across the giant cephalopod at waist depth, which they "stoned" to death and later pulled to the beach. The incident with the approximately fifty kilos ...

The skin of most cephalopods, specifically octopods, has been developed into suckers on each arm. Since the suckers on squid are generally not used for locomotion or anchoring (although they are ...

cephalopods (including octopods, squid and cuttlefish) and the decapod crustaceans or, for short, decapods (including crabs, lobsters and crayfish). We have also evaluated the potential welfare ...

Prior to this whilst the courtship and mating of shallow-water cuttleï¬ sh, octopuses and squid have been ï¬ lmed and well documented by divers and remotely operated vehicles , relatively little was ...

Like other visual predators, we found ourselves attempting to capture the ink blob while the minimally visible squid was long gone. Colouration is not the only way that cephalopods change their ...

Gladii are shaped in many distinctive ways and vary considerably between species, though are often like a feather or leaf. Some examples are shown below. More information Shape of gladius, Species ...

An associate professor of integrative biology at USF St. Petersburg, Judkins is a marine biologist and an expert in cephalopods — octopus, squid and other sea creatures with big heads and ...