The Digital Cuttlefish tells me in rhyme that a new ring has been discovered around Saturn, a huge (13 million km radius) but low density cloud of dust that is responsible for splattering Iapetus with dark material. Very cool.
The Cuttlefish also informed me that lazy ol' Phil Plait hasn't covered it yet because he's distracted with some TAM in London, so how could I resist scooping him?
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New research published in the journal, Animal Behavior, has shed light on an extraordinary adaptation of unborn cuttlefish: the ability to visualize prey while they are still in their egg casings.
A reader sent in this intriguing question in response to the previous post on cuttlefish:
"What is there vision like? Do they really see around them clearly enough to have evolved mimicry?"
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a dolphin that has mastered the tric