Mary Bates, PhD

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Brain Diversity in Octopuses

Day octopus. National Marine Sanctuaries, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

In a new study, researchers from the University of Queensland used advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to visualize the brains of several octopus species. The findings, published in Current Biology, shed new light on octopus brains and reveal previously unknown neuroanatomical diversity.

Read about the findings at my Animal Minds blog: Study Uncovers Brain Diversity in Octopuses.