This study opens a new avenue of research into the role of miRNAs in octopus brain evolution. Octopus brains have intrigued scientists for a long time because they evolved independently of vertebrates ...

The short answer is: evolution. Through tens of millions ... Indeed, a particular part of the octopus brain, the vertical lobe, is dedicated to such tasks. I’m stressing the common octopus ...

Those octopi alive today are a marvel of evolution—they can mold themselves ... and also favored those with a brain enabling ...

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 ...

Octopuses have a large nervous system, with the average octopus having about 500 million neurons or brain cells. That puts it in the same “brain range” as smaller mammals such as dogs.

Book of the Week. Philosopher and scuba-diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the wonder of octopuses - clever creatures who live outside the brain/body divide. Read by Tim McInnerny.

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 ...

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 ...

While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable ... "It's impossible to predict with any degree of certainty how evolution will unfold over extended periods." Rafi Schwartz has worked ...