An Old Cuttlefish, New Trick.

     In an article by Veronique Greenwood from the New York Times. Greenwood discusses the cuttlefish, and how recent findings have reveled a new secret to the little cephalopods mastery of camouflage. Greenwood talks about the experiments from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and research done by the Biologists from the University of Cambridge. She says they discovered “that cuttlefish, masters of camouflage whose shape-shifting talents have fascinated biologists for decades, can lock hundreds of tiny structures under their skin into an upright position, giving themselves a particular texture, then go on their way without expending any energy to keep up the look.”  She goes on to discuss the detail of the findings and experiments that followed. You can read the details in this link: :  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-neurons.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

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