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cuttlefish

[kuht-l-fish] / ˈkʌt lˌfɪʃ /
NOUN
mollusk
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A spokesperson for South Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regions said cuttlefish populations "naturally fluctuate" depending on environmental conditions.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

"This year, they were all really skittish... hiding under rocks. Because there's so few cuttlefish hanging out at the moment, they don't have strength in numbers."

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Every winter, a sliver of the South Australian coast hosts the world's largest mating event for giant cuttlefish.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

By combining genomic data with fossil evidence, the researchers reconstructed both the timeline and environmental context of squid and cuttlefish evolution.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

The former was made either of lampblack or some other sort of charcoal, or from the cuttlefish, and was called atramentum.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

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

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

The dolphin is exceedingly voracious, feeding on fish, cuttlefishes and crustaceans.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

There are wonderfully complete fossil series, e.g. among cuttlefishes, in which we can almost see evolution in process.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson




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