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The giant cuttlefish's technicolor mating display is globally unique—an algal bloom could kill them all
Every year off the South Australian coast, giant Australian cuttlefish come together in huge numbers to breed. They put on a technicolor display of blue, purple, green, red and gold, changing hues as ...
In this excerpt from the BBC/Discovery documentary Life, we learn about a mating strategy that’s fairly common in the animal world. A female cuttlefish is courted by two males. One is large and ...
This is an illustration of a giant cuttlefish battling brave sailors, depicted in a popular science book from 1872, called The Ocean World, by Louis Figuier. And that’s not the least of the weirdness ...
(via PBS Terra) Every winter, off the coast of South Australia, thousands of giant cuttlefish gather for the showdown of a lifetime. In an effort to win a mate, these shape-shifting sea creatures ...
A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...
A "bubble shield" has been installed in South Australia's Spencer gulf in an urgent bid to protect giant cuttlefish from harm caused by the deadly algal bloom. Dr Zoe Doubleday is a marine ecologist ...
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