Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially letting them communicate visually and by vibration. These marine invertebrates, which have eight sucker ...

Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses to move and carry objects, the cuttlefish's eight arms are specialized for grasping prey after the cuttlefish captures it with its two ...

Cuttlefish combine these colors with body postures that reinforce the signal, such as raising or lowering their arms, but marine biologists have wondered if they might have other ways to get the ...

Sophie Cohen-Bodénès and Peter Neri, neuroscientists at École Normale Supérieure, in France, report possible evidence of cuttlefish communicating by waving their 'arms' at one another.

Cuttlefish may "wave" at each other with their tentacles to communicate, new research suggests.. But the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, didn't determine what messages the arm waving ...

In its research, the team studied four different arm movements in two cuttlefish species, S. officinalis and S. bandensis. The researchers recorded videos of animals signing and played them ...

Cuttlefish also have two longer tentacles, with a single suction cup at each tip. They use these elongated arms to grab their prey. Cuttlefish have a short life span, but they grow quickly.

Dwarf cuttlefish with arms posturing. Source: Bill Abbott, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license. In a new study, Sittaramane, with his students Jessica Bowers ...

But it could also be that the cuttlefish is aiming for a certain feeling in its skin. No one is sure of the answer. Image The colored dots on the arms of a cuttlefish each correspond to a ...

Matteo Santon During branching coral, they adopt coralline patterns and raise kinked arms, creating an appearance similar to staghorn coral. For the pulse technique, the cuttlefish pull their arms ...