Sentences with phrase «octopus arms»

Two - thirds of the neurons in an octopus reside not in its brain but in its arms; octopus arms are, unbelievably, able to perform simple tasks independent of input from the central brain, including opening shellfish, searching for food in crevices, and responding to pain or injury (even if completely severed).

Lol I really can imagine trying to simulate being normal with octopus arms xD funny game for sure:)

I don't see a comparison to Bridges, especially since Bridges has octopus arms and a 3 point shot.

These kind of doers, who try with octopus arms to complete several tasks at once, come up short.

You reach forward a hand and stretch out one finger, and one octopus arm slowly uncoils and comes out to touch you.

Based on these observations, the researchers conclude that the octopus arm contains an independent peripheral nervous system.

Four of his plaster cast octopus arm chandeliers are suspended from the ceiling.

Not exact matches

You will have to tenderize the hell out of it before cooking, like people from the Mediterranean smash their octopus against beautiful sea rocks right after being caught, or massage them until their arms are floppy and relaxed.

Once your octopus has cooled down slice each arm into 1/4 inch to 1/4 inch slices, discard the center and slice the head like if you where slicing a calamari, or into dice, what ever you prefer.

He cleans each plate's edges with a vodka - moistened towel and raises his right arm — inked with a tangle of octopus, sea urchin, and clam images — extending his index finger.

Admiral Ackbar is an elderly octopus dude who evidently came out of retirement as leader of the Rebel fleet to stand at consoles behind General Leia and push buttons that aren't attached to anything with his weird Robert Altman «Popeye» movie arms.

-LSB-...] Pumping while nursing might seem really hard to do at first, like you'd need as many arms as an octopus to make it happen.

These machines, like a predator octopus» arms, have surrounded the Albany capital, and the Senate.

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairs.

The way the octopus had the jellyfish arms freely hanging out, while keeping the bell in its mouth provides evidence for the idea that the octopus uses jellyfish as living tools, says the team.

Image of seven - armed octopus courtesy of video by oceancontent Today we're returning to the deep to meet an octopus that, at first glance, hardly seems to earn that eight - limbed designation.Its very name sounds like an oxymoron — or a cautionary tale from a fishing accident.

But these arms are not entirely under the control of the octopus's brain.

The eight wily arms of an octopus can help the animal catch dinner, open a jar and even complete a convincing disguise.

Underside of a glowing sucker octopus captured via ROV; image courtesy of Smithsonian NMNH / Vecchione / Young / YouTube What has eight arms, no bones and hundreds of bright, twinkly lights?

Males of the species have one of their eight arms permanently folded away, giving them the common name of seven - armed octopus.

The octopuses drape their bodies over the half shells, hollow - side up, leaving their arms dangling over the edges.

Both species have raised, bumpy warts on their mantles (the rounded part that looks kind of like a head) and on their arms, but the Pacific octopuses, it turns out, are wartier than their Atlantic cousins — their bumps go further down their arms and mantles.

«Octopuses can bend their arms in every direction,» says biologist Jeff Christiansen of the Seattle Aquarium.

I spent my nights searching for tropical snails and roaches in our Zoological Garden's terrarium building and my days performing genetic fingerprints of microscopic roundworms and rotifers, as well as training the eight - armed octopus to unscrew a glass filled with its favorite food.

We've known for centuries that octopuses get around one of two ways: one, by crawling over surfaces with their arms, or, two, swimming with the help of their siphon's jet.

Common octopus beginning the arm - stretch experiment; image courtesy of Laura Margheri et al..

As had been observed before, the octopuses created three bends in their arms, which acted as joints.

This revealed that, when the octopus reaches out, two waves of muscle contraction travel down the arm in opposite directions.

The team placed electrodes at different locations along the octopuses» arms to measure neural activity.

With no rigid parts, an octopus can bend its arms into positions that would snap the bones of even the most flexible human contortionist.

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an octopus, bringing researchers closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature's unusual biology, including its ability to change skin color and texture and a distributed brain that allows its eight arms to move independently.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

Understanding how the octopus's distributed brain interacts with its eight arms could, for example, help engineers design flexible, prehensile arms for robots, he said.

For example, «woodpeckerlike habits» are seen in lemurs and extinct marsupials, while the mechanics of an octopus» tentacles are far closer to those of a human arm than we might expect, and even their suckers can operate rather like hands.

As many mysteries as the octopus holds — its comprehensive camouflage, smart suckers, agile brain — its genome is surely holding many more (including how it can regenerate its arms — suckers, nerves and all).

To celebrate, I've gone on an all - arms hunt through the deep crevasses of the internet to find eight of my favorite octopus videos.

Suddenly, astonishingly, one - third of the rock and a tangled mass of algae morphs and reveals itself for what it really is: the waving arms of a bright white octopus.

An octopus can stand tall on its arms, squeeze through a hole little bigger than one of its eyes, become a streamlined missile or fold itself to fit into a jar.

Octopuses have not even collected the majority of their neurons inside their brains; most of the neurons are in their arms.

For instance, in an octopus, the majority of neurons are in the arms themselves — nearly twice as many in total as in the central brain.

The nervous systems in each arm also include loops in the neurons (recurrent connections, in the jargon) that may give the arm a simple form of short - term memory, although it is not known what this system does for the octopus.

At the same time, the paper also noted that when octopuses are doing well with this task, the arm that is finding the food appears to do its own local exploration as it goes, crawling and feeling around.

When an octopus pulls in a piece of food, the grasping by the very end of the arm creates two waves of muscle activation, one heading inward from the tip and the other heading outward from the base.

Dolphins shook and tossed their prey over and over until the octopus went limp and its sucker - covered arms relaxed.

The majority of neurons in an octopus are found in the arms, which can independently taste and touch and also control basic motions without input from the brain.

They observed one posture repeatedly — when the octopus would «stand tall,» extending its arms outward and drawing itself upward.

As for shapes, an octopus can quickly arrange its arms to form a wide variety of them, like a fish or a piece of coral, and can even raise welts on its skin to add texture.

As I mentioned earlier, when you approach an octopus in the wild, in at least some species the octopus sends out one arm to inspect you — behavior that suggests a kind of deliberateness, an action guided by the brain.

They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans 20 feet from arm tip to arm tip.