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Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery
Elated researchers watched baby octopuses hatch en masse near Pacific Ocean hydrothermal vents A baby octopus swims away after hatching in a deep-sea area near hydrothermal vents that scientists thought would be too warm to allow octopus eggs to produce viable offspring. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute (CC BY-NC-SA)
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When it’s too cold, these octopuses just rewire their brains
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Octopuses Redesign Their Own Brains When They Get Chilly
Hyperintelligent octopuses just got weirder: scientists have found the cephalopods can recode their brain when temperatures change A California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). Credit: Roger T. Hanlon
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Octopuses ‘rewire’ their brains to adapt to different ocean temperatures
California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) can edit their RNA in response to changing ocean temperatures. (Image credit: Tom Kleindinst) As the seasons change, octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to fluctuating ocean temperatures, a new study finds. Octopuses and other cephalopods are cold-blooded, or ectothermic, meaning they cannot internally regulate their body temperature. As a…
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Do octopuses dream?
Published May 24, 2023 5 min read Costello the octopus may be the first evidence of the eight-armed invertebrates dreaming, a new study says. Scientists at New York City’s Rockefeller University arrived at their lab one morning and found the male Brazilian reef octopus with his arms wrapped inside a piece of PVC pipe, like…