People may use the phrase “burying your head in the sand” for its negative connotation, but such disappearing acts are incredibly important defense mechanisms for creatures like squids. In this ...

Discover how baby squids use special skin cells to change color and blend in moments after hatching, helping them survive in the wild.

Plenty of movies or TV shows play, in some way, on the fantasy of becoming invisible. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that some scientists made that fantasy real for a tiny squid. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: The ...

A see-through squid is giving scientists an unprecedented view of the brain and other organs in a living animal. How scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view Becoming ...

Inside the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bobtail squid are part of preparations on May 20, 2021, for the Understanding of Microgravity on Animal-Microbe ...

Becoming invisible usually requires magic. For some thumb-sized squid, though, all it takes is a little genetic tweaking. Once these squid are genetically altered, "they're really hard to spot," even ...

For most of us, it would take magic to become invisible, but for some lucky, tiny squid, all it took was a little genetic tweaking. As part of our Weekly Dose of Wonder series, NPR's Jon Hamilton ...