The chromatophores can be opened quickly because they are controlled neurally: squid, cuttlefish and octopuses can change colors within milliseconds (Hanlon, 2007). Camouflage using chromatophores ...

However, if the glass squid is spotted, it can quickly fill up its chromatophores, darkening its entire body. It will then squirt ink and swim away to safety, relatively unseen through the dark ...

Special organs in a diamondback squid’s skin – chromatophores – contain sacs of pigment that allow the animal to change colour. Other organs can reflect and scatter light. Songda is an ocean and ...