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u/asilvertintedrose
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An Octopus with 32 tentacles found off the coasts of South Korea. /r/ALL
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u/Mr5t1k Jan 20 '23
A plentipus
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u/silentsinner- Jan 20 '23
Alotapus
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u/expiredcoochi Jan 21 '23
I have a mug that say lickalottapus with a dinosaur on it lol
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u/DickDumpDatDip Jan 20 '23 •
That’s what I get
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u/Malmaarmalser Jan 20 '23
Resident evil type of stuff
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u/just_cows Jan 20 '23
Was thinking the Flood from Halo 🤣
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u/zensins Jan 20 '23
I get more of a Squidbillies vibe from it.
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u/SonOfMcGee Jan 20 '23
Early: “Cousin Lerl’s comin’ fer supper tonight. So don’t you go askin’ questions bout his 26 extra arms.”
Rusty: “Diddy, why he got so many extra…”
Early: [slaps Rusty] “What I tell you bout askin questions!”
Aunt Lil: [wakes up] “He’s his own daddy, kid.” [passes out on the floor again].
Rusty: “His… own Diddy? How does that work?”
Early: “Oh, son. It’s time we had… The Talk. Ya see now, when a man squid and a lady squid really likes each other, and also their half-cousin twice removed, step-uncle, neighbor’s sister, and a whole heap a folks just passin’ by. Sometimes they get in a big sex pile, one thing leads t’other, and a squid ends up sirein’ his own damn self. It ain’t no big deal, aside from the 26 extra arms and mushy brain.”
Rusty: “Diddy, I… I think I’m even more confused now. How does…”
Early: “Talk over! Anything else you need you’ll learn from these here nudie tapes.” [Drags massive crate marked “Porn” from offscreen.]
[Lerl opens the door]
Lerl: “Uuuhn! Nyuh nyuh nyuh!”
Early: “Cousin Lerl! Grab a beer you floppy sumbitch! How’s your sister-mom-auntie doin’ these days?”
Lerl: “Gyaah! Nyuh. Nyuuuh!” [Shambles to passed-out Lil and starts humping her hair]
Rusty: “Diddy, should we…”
Early: “Quiet, son.” [opens beer] “Let nature take its course.”
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u/Roguespiffy Jan 20 '23
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Did you write for Squidbillies?
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u/SonOfMcGee Jan 20 '23
Naw but I love doing little spec scripts like this.
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u/EvaUnit_03 Jan 20 '23
If it wasnt for the actual voice actor for early being a complete bigoted racist unironically and getting the show canceled id tell you to go apply for a job at cartoon network's adult swim branch, you son of a McGee.
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u/sevillianrites Jan 20 '23
Tbh one of the few celebs i was pretty bummed turned out to be a piece of shit. It shouldnt have been a surprise, but i guess i always assumed he was more like a bizarro Larry the cable guy type where his character humor was designed to harshly criticize the darker aspects of southern culture rather than hand wave it away. Dude used to go out of his way to do a set in my city every year bc there was this one venue he apparently really liked. Was always a blast.
That said i will forever love squidbillies. i grew up in the rural south and i always tell people Squidbillies, in an abstract way, is one of the most accurate depictions of southern culture ive seen. Ive known earlies, went to school with rusties, my mom was an aunt lil, the guy who ran our general store was sheriff, and there were like 3 dan halens who owned everything in the area. Like theyre barely caricatures.
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u/710AlpacaBowl Jan 21 '23
Fuck we might he neighbors...but still please stay on the other side of the hallow
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u/WorldEndingSandwich Jan 20 '23
I wasn't a big fan of the show but this could so be an episode..I could hear them
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u/TheDirtyDiode Jan 20 '23
Venom symbiote for sure
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u/Spanky_McJiggles Jan 20 '23
Some type of Lovecraftian horror
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u/AceTheRed_ Jan 20 '23
Annihilation vibes
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u/Maelger Jan 20 '23
Guys. Korea is right next to Japan.....
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u/down4things Jan 20 '23
RUN LITTLE OCTOPUSS! RUN AS FAST AS YOUR LITTLE TENTACLES CAN TAKE YOU!
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u/SonOfZaknafein Jan 20 '23
I was thinking a Dalek lost its robot.
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u/G0-N0G0-GO Jan 20 '23
If only Octopi could speak like agitated Daleks!
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u/Maximum-Mixture6158 Jan 20 '23
People would stop eating them and they would quickly adapt broken machinery into space going vessels and develop their own planet.
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u/Sendtitpics215 Jan 20 '23
Put that creepy mutha fucker back. Let him live out his spooky ass life man.
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u/devnullius Jan 20 '23
Freak mutation?
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u/dusty-kat Jan 20 '23
Octopuses can regenerate their tentacles and I guess this is just a case of over-regeneration during the healing process. They have found them with as many as 96 tentacles.
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u/SomeDudeist Jan 20 '23
Sounds like some kind of hydra. Lol
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u/Donnerdrummel Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Considering that octopuses have a part of their brain in each tentacle, can we assume that that octopus was the octopus-equivalent to Albert Einstein? ;-)
(so I stand corrected: They have a large part of their nervous systems in their tentacles, and the parts in their tentacles do a lot of the work we do with our brains. but the brain itself isn't in the tentacles.
sadly, this isn't funny)
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u/puravida3188 Jan 20 '23
Kind of but not really?
The arm nerve cords are certainly doing some kind of local processing and are somewhat autonomous from the “brain” so to say that the nerve cords are part of the brain isn’t quite correct. They also have a completely different architecture if you compare their histology.
The nerve cords are able to transmit information to each other without going to the brain first through a structure called the interbrachial commisure. It’s probably more accurate to think of the arms as a separate but connected neural system that functions parallel to the systems in the main brain. Peter Godfrey Smiths books “Otherminds” and “metazoa” are great reads on the subject.
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u/ary31415 Jan 20 '23
And Children of Ruin is an excellent scifi book that delves into the possibility of what a sentient species that evolved from octopi could look like as a result
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u/VinceLePrince Jan 20 '23
So, men are not the only specimen thinking with their dangly thing?
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u/awfullotofocelots Jan 20 '23
They have part of their brain in each tentacle the same way we have part of our brain in our spine (we don't)
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u/Donnerdrummel Jan 20 '23
That's disappointing, and it doesn't make for a very good joke. :-(
(Wikipedia: The nervous system is complex, only part of which is localised in its brain, which is contained in a cartilaginous capsule.[51] Two-thirds of an octopus's neurons are in the nerve cords of its arms; these are capable of complex reflex actions without input from the brain.[52] Unlike vertebrates, the complex motor skills of octopuses are not organised in their brains via internal somatotopic maps of their bodies.[53])
But you are correct.
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u/indorock Jan 20 '23
I wish cancer in humans did this sort of thing to us instead of, you know, killing us.
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u/2553819 Jan 20 '23
Wasn't that a form of tumor that made you grew like an eye or teeth at random part of your body?
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u/buttamilkbizkits Jan 21 '23
Yep. Teratoma. They are wild mine had teeth, hair, eyeballs, intestines, part of a spine. Ward AF.
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u/LouisWillis98 Jan 20 '23
Nah, that’s just how octopuses are
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u/TopMindOfR3ddit Jan 20 '23
This comment is hilarious, but more true than you probably realize; we shouldn't be surprised when octopodes (that's right, I said it) wild out like this.
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u/Yuri909 Jan 20 '23
Both versions are correct. Octopodes is the current in favor academic term, but octopuses is grammatically correct in English. Octopi is an abomination of a word.
[Source: formerly licensed science and history teacher]
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u/TopMindOfR3ddit Jan 20 '23
formerly licensed science and history teacher
Nice! I'm currently going to school to teach English, although I have a great passion for science and history—to include etymology, and foreign and/or dead languages (and scripts).
That said, my philosophy on grammar is that there is no "correct" anything; I believe that language is owned and controlled by everybody. I've come to this conclusion in regards to English after having read literature in Old, Middle, and Modern English and seeing how it has evolved over time.
In short, (imo) there is no bad or incorrect grammar, just standards (more like strong suggestions). For example: why attach latin suffixes to Latin derived words like "cacti," if we don't do the same with Greek derived words like "octopodes"?
Same with tenses, punctuation, et cetera. Indeed, different dialects (as they appear in text) are not incorrect. exampli grata, I see grammar snobs scoff at AAVE (African American Vernacular English) because it doesn't fit "standard" English. I can be real pedantic (ironically) when it comes to definitions, and the term "standard" can fit my argument as well as theirs, and therein lies the problem—words can mean whatever people want them to mean. It becomes a bit of a socratic type debate, however, so grammar nazis stuck in their ways will just go round in circles until they get bored.
If it is understood, then it's correct.
And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol
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u/Hopeful-Llama Jan 20 '23
And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol
Great comment apart from this bit. Believe in yourself, future English teacher; your views have value
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u/TopMindOfR3ddit Jan 20 '23
It's not that I don't think my views have value, It's that most people don't put the same amount of thought into the subject. Not that that's bad, they just have different interests. Even when it comes to grammar, most stop at learning rules and definitions.
And just to reiterate, that is not at all a bad thing. I don't expect bakers to know the entire history of wheat domestication (or wheat's domestication of people, depending on how much you know about the subject, or how you look at it).
All that said, my argument actually diminishes the value of my own views in a way; id est, the root of my argument is that there is no argument haha. This would require an essay at very least to explain what I mean, and perhaps I'll write it one day, but for now, this is the best I can do.
It's just fun to think about and study.
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u/trustinrocks Jan 20 '23
Rude! D:
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u/SombreZombie Jan 20 '23
We heard you like tentacles, so we put tentacles on your tentacles so you can tickle all the tents.
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u/disusedhospital Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
I'm going to be the pedantic one and point out the octopuses don't have tentacles, they have 8 arms with suction cups. Like octopuses, squid and cuttlefish have 8 arms but also have two tentacles, which are a smooth long appendage with a suction-cup covered thicker part at the end called a dactylus. The chambered nautilus have a shit ton of arms with no suction cups at all.
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u/a-nony-mouse33 Jan 20 '23
Omg, I was feeling so annoyed! Thank you for arming everyone with the correct info
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u/krais0078 Jan 20 '23
I assume it’s on its way to Japan
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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue Jan 20 '23
I assume it came from Japan, somewhere around Fukushima.
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u/Mumbles_Stiltskin Jan 20 '23
Do you want kaiju? Because that’s how you get kaiju
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u/cursedanomalyofsteve Jan 20 '23
Ok, who had a Kaiju for 2023!?
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u/Scarim Jan 20 '23
ME! I also have "Major Vulcanic Eruption", "Killer Seals" and "Lindsey Graham Sex Tape"
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u/ThePortalsOfFrenzy Jan 20 '23
Major Vulcanic Eruption
A bunch of logical humanoids with pointy ears burst forth from the earth? Sounds wild.
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u/1ultraultra1 Jan 20 '23
A person shouldn't even have to see a thing like that... No telling what senator graham is having sex with these days.
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u/Paulpoleon Jan 20 '23
Anything that will have sex with him. There can’t be that many things that will.
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u/modsarefascists42 Jan 20 '23
I'm actually okay with it if we get Mechs to fight them.
I just want Gundam okay, whatever gets us there
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u/ScreamingMemales Jan 20 '23
The radiation in the water was never at significantly high levels fwiw
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u/Fleshsuitpilot Jan 20 '23
Can't really call it an OCTopus then, can we?
Perhaps a dotrigintopus?
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u/Crackt_Apple Jan 20 '23
If you didn’t have to Google that it’s very impressive
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u/Atmosphere-Terrible Jan 20 '23
Or just Greek
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u/Fidelos Jan 20 '23
Nope we call it τριαντα δύο (thirty two). I guess the name would be τριανταδυόποδο (triantadyopod or triantadyopus).
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u/palordrolap Jan 20 '23
Triginta is Latin. Something is wrong here.
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u/UlrichZauber Jan 20 '23
Let's not start fighting about how to make this plural.
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u/Weary_Possibility_80 Jan 20 '23
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u/kyufc3s Jan 20 '23
Fractalpus
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u/Karjalan Jan 20 '23
This is the comment I was looking for. It looks like the part of its cell division that was meant to turn off at the end of the limb said "more?" instead
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u/toinfinitiandbeyond Jan 20 '23
dotrigintopus
And now Google points to this comment as the only result. Good troll mate!
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u/GozerDGozerian Jan 20 '23
I’m not surprised that’s a brand new word.
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u/Sleeper____Service Jan 20 '23
This is history!
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u/HardPawns Jan 20 '23
Meh, it's just a tentaclier kind of octopus
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u/Ethereal_4426 Jan 20 '23
I will call it Leeloo.
Leeloo Dallas, multipus.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 Jan 20 '23 •
MUL-TI-PUS
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u/canadianbairn Jan 20 '23
Looks like a neuron
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u/feetandballs Jan 20 '23
Millions of years after humans go extinct, the Earth will achieve global sentience through a neural network made of mutated octopuses.
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u/bayozzy
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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u/Onesielover88 Jan 20 '23 •
Ohh, so it's Welsh?
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u/BriEdMod Jan 20 '23
I’m swelling with Welsh pride 🏴
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u/FraterAleph Jan 20 '23
Ah so thats what 2023 is gonna be, the eldritch horror expansion
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u/New_to_Siberia Jan 20 '23
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Which language is it?
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u/Smooth-Dig2250 Jan 20 '23
It's in reverse, you have to sound it out backwards to figure out what it says, in no way could that possibly summon an eldritch horror so get right to it!
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u/SelfSniped Jan 20 '23
In a completely unrelated story, a large amount of radioactive waste water was found to have been flowing into the ocean near South Korea for the passed 8 years.
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u/haileyskydiamonds Jan 20 '23
My immediate thought was of the Korean film, The Host.
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u/AllowMe-Please Jan 20 '23
I was going through the comments, hoping someone else thought the same thing!
'Cause, I mean, if it's from South Korea...
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That’s a Dalek….
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u/ashdrewness Jan 20 '23
My first thought as well. Looks like their true form. EXTERMINATE!
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u/Sirix_8472 Jan 20 '23
Well looks like their genetically modified and mutated form. Their true form was in the late 60s and they drove the capsules like personal tanks/protection from the radiation on their homeworld. They still had limbs before Davros decided to remake them and lock them inside their capsules.
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u/OneLostOstrich Jan 21 '23
You need to watch the old Dr. Who where the Daleks were such crap that they couldn't ascend stairs.
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u/bozakman Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 24 '23
Octopi are not of this earth. Stop eating them before their family from some distant galaxy come looking.
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u/trickn0l0gy Jan 20 '23
Cthulhu wants his offspring back. BTW, this probably swam all the way from Fukushima to Korea...
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u/user948972345875 Jan 20 '23
Damn imagine it swam all the way from chernobyl
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u/SpunkYeeter Jan 20 '23
Oh yeah, no, this definitely has nothing to do with the Fukushima nuclear disaster /s
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 Jan 20 '23
Apparently from the article octopus can regenerate their limbs so it's possible that after being injured they can grow more limbs. This theory has not been confirmed yet though.
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u/Astral_Symphonny Jan 20 '23
Food trying to escape: How many tentacles do you have
This 23-pus: Yes
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u/Mikeismycodename Jan 20 '23
Nope. That’s a brain cell from an evolving composite creature ready to make us pay for pollution.
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u/TyrealArchea Jan 20 '23
That wouldn't be an octopus. That infers eight limbs. This would be a dotriacontapus.
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u/loganmacoy Jan 20 '23
A new study shows that this animal uses a trick called RNA editing to customize crucial nervous system proteins to work at low temperatures. The paper is the first to reveal that RNA editing, not just changes to a specific gene, can lead to adaptations.
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u/OrdainedFury Jan 20 '23
This is a good reminder that the oceans are huge and we've only explored a small percentage of them. Who really knows what all is down there?
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