“There’s this little ciliated pore that’s like the door to the light organ, and there’s six of these doors on each squid—three on each side,” Nyholm explains. Each bacterium must navigate through one ...

Not only masters of camouflage, squids may also be experts in solar power. A fascinating study has uncovered that the pigments responsible for their remarkable color shifts could play a role in ...

More recently, her lab has been looking at one specific part of squid biology— chromatophores—which is where the latest discovery was made. Chromatophores are pigmented organs that sit all ...

A selection of these so-called symbiotic organs is shown below. The Hawaiian bobtail squid gets Vibrio fischeri into its light organ by means of chemical signals and a complicated obstacle course that ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary ...

dux alone, according to the Smithsonian. Without an examination of its internal organs, it's difficult to guess how the Scarborough Beach squid perished, Vecchione said. ”Note that most of the ...

The squid have a light organ on their underside that houses a colony of Vibrio fischeri. V. fischeri is a relatively rare glowing bacteria making up less than 0.1% of the seawater bacterial community.