Intriguing and incredibly unique, Octopuses are cephalopods with three hearts that pump blue blood throughout their eight arms. These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains. Nine, to be exact.

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread ...

And the hundreds of suckers on each arm have over 10,000 chemotactile sensory receptors each, working with 500 million neurons to pick up that information and relay it throughout the nervous system.

Researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” detecting microbiomes on the surfaces around them and deriving ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

Cephalopod suction was previously thought to be a product of these creatures’ soft, flexible bodies, which can deform easily ...

This means that every octopus arm can explore, touch, taste, and even manipulate objects semi-independently. In experiments, researchers have seen severed octopus arms continue to respond to stimuli.

But why an octopus? The brand revealed that it’s pretty simple. Octopuses have a decentralized nervous system, meaning each part of their body moves on its own, similar to a regular car where ...

Similarly, they also indicate that the global signal in the brain is a key component of the autonomic nervous system's arousal response.