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"Octopuses are among the most evolutionarily distant animals from humans, as our last common ancestor was a worm that lived 350 to 500 million years ago," says Kieseler.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Octopuses possess chemoreceptors that allow them to smell and taste through touch, which could have affected the results if real prey had been used during testing.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Octopuses are having their moment under the sun, with a flurry of books and documentaries released about them in the past decade.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

Octopuses are usually solitary, so it was immediately clear that something strange was happening.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2023

Octopuses have these little sacs called statocysts that respond to motion and gravity, so that their eyes can be totally unfazed, totally steady.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden