“Due to the involvement of the nervous and muscular systems, it is likely that cephalopod color change is one of the most ...

Now, biologists have measured how much energy octopuses use during their complete color transformations, providing new ...

With skin that can mimic colors, patterns, and textures, octopuses are the ultimate shapeshifters. They can camouflage ...

For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing ...

Energy trade-offs of octopus camouflage. While the benefits of an octopus' color-changing abilities are well-documented, the ...

Octopuses are masters of camouflage and disguise. An alarmed octopus can vanish even while you watch, flawlessly transforming ...