The experiment itself is groundbreaking, but as noted above, scientists aren’t quite sure what to make of the signals they discovered inside the octopus’ brain. Dr. Tamar Gutnick, the study ...

Embrace change with the adaptability of an octopus, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth, renewal, and a ...

While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...

An octopus’ brain doesn’t know where each of its arms are at any one time But, despite the potential confusion, the creature doesn’t get tangled up Israeli scientists found this is because ...

Scientists have demonstrated that cephalopods have an expanded number of microRNA families, which could explain how the complex octopus brain developed. Octopuses and other coleoid cephalopods are ...

Transparent walls enabled the octopus to see the food. Most of the octopuses were eventually successful at guiding their arm to the food – proving that the central brain, which processed the visual ...

and also favored those with a brain enabling the octopus to choose which system, or combination of systems to deploy. These ...

Indeed, a particular part of the octopus brain, the vertical lobe, is dedicated to such tasks. I’m stressing the common octopus here because it has been studied the most, by far. Octopus species ...

The cuttlefish has one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of any invertebrate, perhaps even larger than that of the octopus. The cuttlefish brain can handle input from a variety of senses ...

What’s different about the octopus is that the neurons aren’t all in a central brain, but are spread out throughout its eight arms. In fact, 60% of its neurons are in its arms. Because their ...

An octopus scoots along the reef during one of ... Octopuses have a central brain, like humans, but “do a lot more processing” and some of their “thinking” in their eight arms, he said.