One morning, biologist Leah Bushin checked on a flask of bacteria and noticed something unusual: the liquid had turned a deep ...

Researchers engineer bacteria to mass produce the rare octopus pigment xanthommatin, marking a major advance in camouflage ...

Cephalopods like octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish have the mesmerizing ability to change the color of their skin to camouflage into the surrounding environment. Multiple biological processes involving ...

A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many ...

Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

UC San Diego-led team discovers new method for producing large amounts of color-changing, nature-inspired pigment in the lab.

UC San Diego scientists have bioengineered bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the rare pigment behind octopus camouflage, ...

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In something straight out of an H.P. Lovecraft horror story, a terrifying deep-sea squid has been filmed latching on to a camera over half a mile under the ocean's surface. The creature, which was ...