cuttlefish

Every winter, a sliver of the South Australian coast hosts the world's largest mating event for giant cuttlefish.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

His team also tracked adult cuttlefish numbers during the dive survey, and said the dozen or so they saw - when there should have been tens of thousands - appeared to be behaving differently.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Official figures released this month estimate just 1,811 cuttlefish turned up to mate this year, down from 63,000 last year - a 97% drop.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

This structure varies widely, from the rounded cuttlebone in cuttlefish to the thin, blade-like gladius in many squid, as well as the spiral shell of the ram's horn squid.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026

She leaned a bit heavily on the arm she took as they left the cuttlefish to his ill-conditioned solitude.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his colleagues recently discovered that cuttlefishes actively express opsin genes throughout their skin, particularly in their fins and underbellies.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2012

Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones: Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cuttlefishes are molluscs and may be regarded as the highest of the backboneless or Invertebrate animals.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

The higher forms, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopi, swim rapidly by ejecting a jet of water from the tubular siphon beneath the head.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C by Project Gutenberg

There are clouds of ink in the clear water, for, as Professor Hickson puts it, the cuttlefishes have thrown dust in the eyes of their enemies.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson