Intriguing and incredibly unique, Octopuses are cephalopods with three hearts that pump blue blood throughout their eight ...

How many brains does an octopus have? Octopuses have nine brains . Each of their eight arms contains its own small brain, allowing the arms to act independently and complete tasks efficiently.

An octopus swims at the Ocearium in Le Croisic, western France, on December 6, 2016. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images) Octopuses have three hearts.

Octopus fossils are rare; animals with soft bodies generally leave no trace. This fossil is about 90 million years old, which makes it one of the oldest known octopuses.

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has called the octopus the closest thing to an alien that we might encounter on Earth, and their bizarre anatomy speaks to this: An octopus’ mind isn’t ...

Today is World Octopus Day and we're excited to celebrate the 289 species of eight-armed cephalopods who roam the seas—from the minuscule to the gargantuan. Octopuses are incredible animals with ...

Now, in a new study published on November 28 in Current Biology, Hale and her colleagues have described something new and totally unexpected about the octopus nervous system: a structure by which the ...

Unique features of octopus create 'an entirely new way of designing a nervous system' Date: November 28, 2022 ... Realizing that little work had been done to explore the anatomy of the INCs, ...

Octopus body shapes diversified widely earlier in evolutionary history than previously ... paleontologists seldom get to see the characteristic soft-tissue anatomy of these many-armed swimmers.

The researchers investigated the anatomy of young Octopus bimaculoides, which are the size of “a big Tic Tac,” says study lead author Adam Kuuspalu, also at Chicago.