![]() ![]() The incredible tale of a man who formed an unlikely bond with an octopus They’re just a big muscle practically,” said Nick Bellono, an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, and the study’s lead author. “They’re always exploring their environment. The study provides new insight into how the creatures use their long flexible tentacles to interpret both danger and delight in the waters around them. ![]() Scientists are now seeing how octopuses use their “touch-taste” sense, activating sensory receptors on their suckers dotting the length of their eight arms, according to a new study published in the journal Cell. One of those ways the octopuses are both familiar and foreign is that when they wrap their long arms around prey or another object, they are both touching it (familiar) and tasting it (not so familiar). “But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them you realize that you’re very similar in a lot of ways.” “A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien,” says filmmaker Craig Foster in his new Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” ![]()
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