Nature is full of masters of disguise. From the chameleon to arctic hare, natural camouflage is a common yet powerful way to survive in the wild. But one animal might surprise you with its camouflage ...

By placing squid pigments into a photovoltaic cell, researchers revealed the animals' incredible color-matching ability may ...

Squid can switch up their color and patterning in a flash, using their skin to send signals or camouflage themselves. Researchers have now shown how the structure of certain cells and their pigment ...

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Squid possess specialized organs that function similarly to solar cells, generating energy that powers their remarkable camouflage.

Xuanhe Zhao of MIT and his colleagues created the thin elastic film, which in their paper they described as an “electro-mechano-chemically responsive system,” by drawing inspiration from cephalopod ...

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 ...