Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses to move and carry objects, the cuttlefish's eight arms ... into the female's buccal area to wash out other males' spermatophores.

Pull out the cuttlebone (or squid quill), then rinse the cuttlefish or squid thoroughly, pulling off any membranes. Cut into fairly thick slices and dry as thoroughly as possible. Heat the olive ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display ... “To our eyes this dynamic display looks very conspicuous, standing out strongly from the background, but it is exploiting ...

Buy a whole dried cuttlefish, not the shredded type ... Slit open the body on one side, then scrape out and discard the innards. Cut off and discard the face and beak from the tentacles.

They can even work out how to exit a maze. I look at a photo online of a common cuttlefish in the water. Its appearance is unusual, almost weird – it wouldn’t look out of place as a magical ...

Perhaps captive cuttlefish haven’t felt the need to hoodwink food that is already dead, Dr. Santon said. Or perhaps they’re just a little bored. “I’m always out in the wild,” he said.

Yet when danger looms, the animal can jet away at great speeds, shooting out a smoke screen of ink or using its ink to create decoys of itself. How does the cuttlefish accomplish all this?

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display ... "To our eyes this dynamic display looks very conspicuous, standing out strongly from the background, but it is exploiting ...