Octopuses Archives - Daily Digest https://dailydigest.com/tag/octopuses/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:39:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dailydigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Daily_Digest_News-1-32x32.png Octopuses Archives - Daily Digest https://dailydigest.com/tag/octopuses/ 32 32 Don’t Freak Out Here But Scientists Claim Octopuses Might Be… ALIENS! https://dailydigest.com/genome-octopus-alien/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:39:02 +0000 http://dailydigest.com/?p=1486 After a comprehensive study of their DNA and genetic make-up, scientists are now saying that octopuses (it’s not ‘octopi’, okay?) are basically aliens… Yep, really. Mapping of the cephalopod genome sequence for the very first time shows that the eight-legged sea creatures have 33,000 protein-coding genes. That’s a huge number more than us humans – [...]

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