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sounds_sound · 3171 days ago · link · · parent · post: Don't freak out, but scientists think octopuses 'might be aliens' after DNA study
The octopus has eight of something. If they’re legs then all the arms are missing. Nature often makes mistakes in distribution. You’d think it would be more distressing. Too many rubber legs with suckers, too many sets of teeth on top each other: some button in the shop stuck on or off. Sometimes a brain-feed sticks until the brain that gets delivered has a hundred times the strength it needs in nature. Which changes nature. A hundred other creatures gang together in a chain of mutual interest they wouldn’t have perceived without the strange intelligence. -Kay Ryan, 2012The Octopus