cuttlefish
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In octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, ancient rearrangements of the genome may have helped establish new regulatory networks that contributed to the development of their exceptionally sophisticated nervous systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Because gentoos can feed on a wide variety of prey, including fish, krill, squid, and cuttlefish, they do not need to travel especially far from their breeding colonies in search of food.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Adult cuttlefish typically die after breeding so each mating season is crucial for the species' future, but in recent months, just 440 eggs have been counted, instead of the millions that are usually laid.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
"The cuttlefish population estimate rebounded to more than 100,000 just two years following the low numbers in 2013," the spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Feuchtwanger's Tooth Paste.—Powdered myrrh, two ounces; burned alum, one ounce; cream tartar, one ounce; cuttlefish bone, four ounces; drop lake, two ounces; honey, half a gallon.
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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 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
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
Seven years later Lamarck gave some account of the genera of cuttlefishes.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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