In addition to a central brain located between its eyes, an octopus has eight separate clusters of nerve cells, called ganglia, at the base of each of their eight arms. Compared with most ...

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...

Cephalopods – including octopuses, cuttlefish and squid – possess one of the most sophisticated neural systems among invertebrates, which supports a wide array of complex behaviours.

Scientists Discover Strange Segmented Nervous System ... “We think it’s a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements. ...

Some very diverse neurological systems have evolved in animals, like those carried by cephalopods, compared to those found in humans. But scientists have now found an interesting commonality: many ...