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

Extra-sensory perception The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system A mix of autonomous and top-down control manage the octopus's limbs.

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

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

Octopus arms reveal an entirely new way of designing a nervous system UChicago study shows octopi nerves are connected in a unique geometric structure ...

However, unlike a tail, octopus arms are boneless. Technically, they are a type of structure called a “muscular hydrostat,” composed only of muscle, connective tissue, and nervous tissue.

Octopus nervous systems are structured entirely differently from our own. However, the eight-limbed molluscs are known to be very intelligent, prompting many questions as to how exactly their ...

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

News Release 28-Nov-2022 Unique features of octopus create ‘an entirely new way of designing a nervous system’ Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Chicago Medical Center ...

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...