These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its ...

A decentralized nervous system is one factor that helps octopuses adapt to changes, such as injury or predation, as seen in the case of an Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus, that was observed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It’s no surprise, then, that octopus arms are laden with neurons—indeed, as the paper points out, there are “more neurons found distributed across ... [the] nervous system. ...

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 ...

Each octopus arm has a massive nervous system, with more neurons combined across the eight arms than in the animal’s brain. These neurons are concentrated in a large axial nerve cord ...

Researchers reported on Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” ...

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 ...