Our photographer got an exclusive look at how researchers are learning more about these cephalopods—and how that relates to us.
—have inspired folklore for centuries. But in reality, these cephalopods are smart, curious, and full of personality. For these images, photographer David Liittschwager spent weeks at Roger Hanlon’s laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and at Anna Di Cosmo’s laboratory at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, where he documented octopuses changing the color and texture of their skin, choosing meals, and exploring their tanks.
The brain sends neural signals to special pigment-filled sacs and muscle bundles in the skin to instantly change the octopus’s color, pattern, and texture to blend into its surroundings, such as plants, rocks, or corals.Around 50 hatchling California two-spot octopuses swim in a beaker. Females typically produce 300 eggs and tend them for a month or so before dying. Most two-spot octopuses live for about a year.
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