Humans with at least a vague awareness of pop culture can probably do recognizable impressions of Christopher Walken, Robert DeNiro, and the other go-to’s that struggling impressionists do. If you’re ...

Cuttlefish have been caught on film walking like crabs by moving their tentacles in novel ways. Kohei Okamoto at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and his team first spotted pharaoh ...

Our memory, for all the good it does us, can also tell us lies. Thanks to the piecemeal way our brain stores memory information, aspects of our recollections can become jumbled as we reconstruct them, ...

Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but researchers in Japan don’t think cuttlefish are trying to flatter hermit crabs when they appear to mimic crustacean arm movements. In videos from ...

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

Cuttlefish can rapidly learn from experience and adapt their eating behavior accordingly, a new study has shown. When cuttlefish know that shrimp -- their favourite food -- will be available in the ...

Before we had the luxuries of modern science, folks used to believe that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea. So in the depths there naturally must be sea cows, sea unicorns, and even sea ...