This week’s cover of ‘Nature’ features an octopus with its eyes firmly shut. This is the ‘California two-spot octopus,’ which lives in the coastal waters of Mexico, Africa, and Japan, and its thick ...

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Each year on 8 October, the globe directs its gaze below the waves to celebrate one of the sea's greatest wonders: the octopus. Intelligent, versatile and inquisitive, these eight-legged creatures are ...

Past research has revealed that ' the eight legs of an octopus have a group of nerves that control the legs independently of the brain ' and that they have the ability to confirm the 'taste' of what ...

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An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...