Nothing About the Octopus Belongs on Earth — Here's Why

#Octopus #OctopusFacts #MarineBiology Right now, in the ocean, an animal is watching you with three hearts, blue blood, and a brain spread across eight arms that each think for themselves. It tastes with its skin, vanishes in half a second, and rewrites its own genetic code whenever it wants. We're about to meet a creature that opens jars, learns your face, and guards her eggs for four and a half years. Some real scientists even argued it came from space. If this grabs you, like and subscribe and ride along. Take a breath. We dive in. Sources: a, Octopus distributed nervous system and arm autonomy, https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/... b, Octopus neuron counts and nine brains, https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopu... c, Octopuses adjust to cold by editing their RNA (Cell, 2023), https://www.mbl.edu/news/masters-accl... d, RNA editing underlies cold adaptation in polar octopus potassium channels, https://www.science.org/content/artic... e, Longest egg-brooding period, deep-sea octopus (PLOS One, 2014), https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... f, The Octopus Garden deep-sea nursery at Davidson Seamount (MBARI), https://www.mbari.org/project/the-oct... g, Octlantis: gloomy octopus social site in Jervis Bay, https://www.livescience.com/60803-oct... h, Deepest octopus ever recorded, Java Trench (Guinness World Records), https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/... i, "No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space" (panspermia paper review), https://www.livescience.com/62594-oct... j, The Alien Octopus Hypothesis and the 2018 Cambrian Explosion paper, https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/11/the-a... #octopus #ocean #science #animals #nature #biology #sea #deepsea #aliens