A protein in octopus skin is similar to a light-detecting protein found in the eye, enabling the cephalopods' amazing camouflage skills. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

Octopus camouflage is remarkable. One could easily waste (enrich?) an hour of the work day watching videos of octopuses emerging from texturally complex undersea landscapes that looked completely ...

We already knew cephalopods are amazing creatures—how many of us can go from colored to invisible in a blink? Hell, octopuses can even operate cameras. Still, sensing light with one’s skin is a pretty ...

The skin of the California two-spot octopus can sense light even without input from the central nervous system. The animal does so by using the same family of light-sensitive proteins called opsins ...

The octopus has a unique ability. It can change the color, pattern and even texture of its skin not only for purposes of camouflage but also as a means of communication. The most intelligent, most ...

Researchers are studying texture-changing octopus skin to see if the military can use its camouflaging properties. “This research stems from a challenge I posed to professors at Cornell [University in ...

If scientist Roger Hanlon seems a little obsessed with octopuses, it's because he's been studying them for the past decade — and he thinks they could hold a key to advancements in fashion, cosmetics, ...

The U.S. military funding research on octopus skin may sound like an exceptional situation. However, it's not; various branches of the military conduct a wide range of scientific research in their own ...