Commenters express awe at octopus intelligence and adaptability
4 Sep 14 11:18 PM · 9d ago · 48 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Users post admiring commentary on octopus cognitive abilities, camouflage, and color-changing abilities, with some suggesting they may be superior to humans or extraterrestrial in origin.
“They are superior to humans. He is changing, not on,y color but, texture. And at times reverts to his " regular" color. Almost as if he is playing with his abilities.”
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Please don’t eat them!! Plzzzz don’t frequent restaurants who have them on the menu. 👍❤️
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And if you haven't seen it, you guys have to see this one that I saw on here a while ago. It's only "up to" INCH long as an adult!
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Wish we could focus more research on cool stuff like this rather than the bs 1%ers want to destroy the world with
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These are only the species we know about. Keep in mind that we know more about the moon and Mars than we know about the depths of our oceans. Weird, right?
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Was about to comment inhumane, but considering they are more evolved that is probably an insult.
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Yeah, I’m pretty sure they’re from another planet, dropped off millennia ago. And, cats too. 
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I, for one, welcome our 🐙 overlords. They can't be any worse than who's running this shit show now.
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While cool, there should be no talk of "alien DNA" here especially when their genome is "broadly similar to that found across invertebrate bilaterians" except for two gene families "previously thought to be uniquely enlarged in vertebrates." That isn't aliens, that's just evolution.
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They don't change their DNA, they edit their RNA. And that isn't evolution but gene expression.
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Oh, I understand it and I know this... is false. Instead of changing their permanent DNA, octopuses can recode their messenger RNA. This lets them adapt proteins in their nervous system for different water temperatures. p.s. it's autonomous, they don't say "time to reprogram the old proteins"
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Little shows our stupidity quite like dismissing the octopus as a “mere invertebrate” because its intelligence looks nothing like our own and then declaring ourselves superior because we fail to understand it.
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So, it wasn't the mice running the experiments at all!
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What we don't know about the world around us is breathtaking in scope and scale.
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Thanks for sharing. That's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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So amazing - can never believe we EAT these creatures. Checking up on the long-protested Spanish "farm" - happy to find it's been cancelled:
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I have eaten them. I have seen some very interesting shows about them. I won’t eat them again They are intelligent creatures. I think they are aliens.
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so "legit" scientists have finally realized those complex creatures are aliens? So when are they going to recognize how intelligent they are?
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They are truly one of the most complex, fanciful, mysterious creatures on this planet…I have the greatest respect for them👍🏻💞
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They are such unique and interesting creatures!💕
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Thanks for sharing a very interesting paper. I didn't understand however what do you mean by "While all other animals on earth evolve through multiple generations, octopus DNA can change while they are alive."? I found nothing like that in the paper. Could you explain, please?
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I was able to download the article There are so many things we do not know or understand. An octopus is one of them. They are such amazing animals
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They are so beautiful. Exquisite beings. Precious miracles of earth and stardust. We have so much preciousness of life here.
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Not to mention they have 3 hearts and 2 of them stop beating when they move. Oh yeah, they have blue blood too.
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You should read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, and in particular, Children of Ruin!
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