cuttlefish
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The researchers believe this work provides a strong foundation for future studies on the unique traits of squid and cuttlefish.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Many squid and cuttlefish lineages then expanded into these environments.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
A government review led by Prof Birch in 2021 assessed 300 scientific studies on the sentience of decapods and Cephalopods, which include octopus, squid, and cuttlefish.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2024
In 1778, British explorer Capt. James Cook was welcomed when he anchored off the Hawaiian islands by locals eager to trade cuttlefish, breadfruit and pigs for nails and iron tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The Romans made extensive use of sepia, the coloring substance obtained from the cuttlefish.
From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
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 Thomson, J. Arthur
Seven years later Lamarck gave some account of the genera of cuttlefishes.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
The same power of rapid colour-change is seen in cuttlefishes, where it is often an expression of nervous excitement, though it sometimes helps to conceal.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
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