The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing organs connected to cephalopods’ muscle and nervous systems, which dot the ...

Xanthommatin is one of the pigments that helps octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid change color. Xanthommatin used to be difficult to produce in a lab, but a new method tricks genetically modified ...

With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s ...