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This creature can change color 177 times in one hour – evolution went too far

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

DYK: This Animal Has Five Brains, Three Hearts And Seems Almost Alien

With three hearts, blue blood and arms that appear to think independently, the octopus may be one of Earth’s strangest creatures—rewriting what scientists thought intelligence.
Knowing Neurons

The Neuroscience of Octopuses: Why People Think They’re Aliens (And Why They’re Not)

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

4 Black Eggs Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With Alien Creatures Inside

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...
Discover Wildlife

"Their pincer-like mouth parts inject a venom that paralyses and liquifies their hapless victims." 10 gruesome animals that liquidise their prey before eating

Nature harbours a chilling arsenal of predators that don’t just kill their prey — they dissolve it. These eight grisly ...