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Highly intelligent and vastly different from ourselves, you might think octopuses have eight tentacles, but you'd be wrong.
Nov 29, 2021 · Octopuses have arms, not tentacles.(Image credit: fjdelvalle via Getty Images) Octopuses are famous for their eight sucker-covered arms, whereas squids, from giant Architeuthis dux to the...
Mar 13, 2024 · Octopus tentacles can even react after they’ve been completely severed from a dead animal. In one experiment, amputated tentacles jerked and curled up when researchers pinched them.
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Cephalopod limbs bear numerous suckers along their ventral surface as in octopus, squid and cuttlefish arms and in clusters at the ends of the tentacles (if present), as in squid and cuttlefish. Each sucker is usually circular and bowl-like and has two distinct parts: an outer shallow cavity called an infundibulum and a central hollow cavity ...
Aug 13, 2023 · An octopus uses its arms to build its own housing and to climb in and out of shells and other objects. It uses two arms to crawl along the bottom, so those arms are sometimes called legs. Squid and cuttlefish each have eight arms and two longer tentacles.
The terrifyingly powerful Gorgon of Greek mythology may have been inspired by the octopus or squid, the octopus itself representing the severed head of Medusa, the beak as the protruding tongue and fangs, and its tentacles as the snakes.
Nov 14, 2022 · Some people call their appendages tentacles, but that is incorrect; they are arms. Most octopus species have suction cups on the bottom of each arm. The arms seem to have a mind of their own. In...
