These connections are the subjects of the popular 2020 documentary “My Octopus Teacher,” the book “The Soul of an Octopus” and Shelby Van Pelt’s humorous fiction novel “Remarkably ...

An octopus. In particular ... are limited by their anatomy and can’t easily unscrew anything. At the same time, octopuses are as alien as any extraterrestrial you might dream up.

Realizing that little work had been done to explore the anatomy of the INCs, they began to trace the nerves, expecting them to form a ring in the body of the octopus, similar to the axial nerve cords.

Figure 1: Octopus anatomy and gene family representation analysis. Mechanisms other than whole-genome duplications can drive genomic novelty, including expansion of existing gene families ...