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Topic: Octopus

An octopus tentacle (Getty Images/RickSause)

New tech lets you have an octopus arm

Matthew Rozsa
Kendra Buresch, senior research assistant, touches Marco Polo, an octopus that is checking out the top of the tank at the Marine Biological Lab. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is octopus experimentation ethical?

Matthew Rozsa
Octopus in action (Getty Images/Nikos Stavrinidis/500px)

Is it ethical to eat octopuses?

Matthew Rozsa
During quiet sleep, octopus laqueus appears white and motionless. This quiet sleep is punctuated by bursts of sleep that show wake-like activity (active sleep) roughly every hour. (Keishu Asada / Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Do octopuses dream of electric eels?

Rae Hodge
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Two-spotted Octopus, Octopus bimaculoides, portrait at Sea of Cortez, Baja California Mexico. (Luis Javier Sandoval/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Octopuses can change their own genes

Matthew Rozsa
Day octopus, Octopus cyanea, Hawaii. (David Fleetham/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The ethics of eating and farming octopus

Lindsay Hamilton - The Conversation
Day Octopus, Octopus cyanea, Komodo National Park, Indonesia. (Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The mystery of the octopus' brain

Troy Farah
Octopus (Getty Images/sko)

Behold the octopus glove

Matthew Rozsa
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Octopus (Getty Images/sko)

How the octopus got so smart

Matthew Rozsa
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)

Can an octopus have a soul?

Matthew Rozsa
Billy Gardell as Bob and Folake Olowofoyeku as Abishola in "Bob Hearts Abishola" (Sonja Flemming/CBS)

Smart Watch: 12 new looks for fall

Melanie McFarland
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Deep sea octopus moms are suffocating

Rose Jones
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Octopuses come ashore in Wales

Matthew Rozsa

This octopus is a great mom

Joanna Rothkopf
(Screenshot, YouTube)

Lindsay Abrams
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Octopuses: Big, wet puppies

Lindsay Abrams
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