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Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space? – MENAFN.COM

Michael, aged 14, asks: As Michael points out, octopuses are famous for their alien-like abilities, from regrowing damaged arms to changing their skin colour…

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(MENAFN – The Conversation) Michael, aged 14, asks:
As Michael points out, octopuses are famous for their alien-like abilities, from regrowing damaged arms to changing their skin colour and texture. They use this colour-shifting power to camouflage and, interestingly, as a strange visual language to talk to other octopuses.
A little known fact is they actually belong to a category of animals (phylum) called Mollusca, which is largely made up of snails. Yep, octopuses are like souped-up snails…

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