Octopus camouflage consumes surprising ... Octopuses and cephalopods are not the only animals capable of changing color. Sonner also noted that rapid color change has evolved independently across ...

With skin that can mimic colors, patterns, and textures, octopuses are the ultimate shapeshifters. They can camouflage themselves among coral reefs, kelp forests, and sandy ocean floors.

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...

Octopus fossils are rare; animals with soft bodies generally leave ... Octopus disguise has three main elements. One is color. Octopuses generate color through a system of pigments and reflectors.

Read the paper: High energetic cost of color change in ... in other parts of a resting animal. It takes almost 220 micromoles of oxygen per hour for a 100-gram octopus to keep its chromatophore ...