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 ...

A team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has found that when cuttlefish know they're getting shrimp for dinner, they'll only have a light lunch of crabs. This ability to anticipate ...

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, ...

We’ve all been there: Stuffed full after a big dinner, sure we will ever eat again. But for some of us (most of us), when the dessert menu comes, it is like our brains go out the window and we make ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered something intriguing about cuttlefish after putting them through a "marshmallow test." The test, which is designed for children, showed that the cuttlefish have the ability ...

You might have seen videos of octopuses opening jars or heard rumors of their intelligence. It turns out they aren’t the only tentacled mollusks with an impressive skill set. Scientists have found ...

Certain species show a remarkable ability to delay gratification, notably great apes, corvids, and parrots, while other species do not (such as rodents, chickens, and pigeons.) Add the cuttlefish to ...

You’ve probably heard about the famous Stanford “Marshmallow Test” before. It’s a simple experiment designed to see how much self-control children have. First you put a marshmallow in front of them.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Cuttlefish, octopuses, and squids are highly intelligent and have copper blood. I believe they are the escaped pets from alien visitors. I don't mess with any of them in case their owners come back.