Those hundreds of powerful suckers on octopus arms do more than just stick.

If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus Deep Look

Premiered February 14, 2017
If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus

Those hundreds of powerful suckers on octopus arms do more than just stick. They actually smell and taste. This contributes to a massive amount of information for the octopus’s brain to process, so octopuses depend on their eight arms for help. (And no, it's not 'octopi.')

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Deep Look

See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Get a new perspective on our place in the universe and meet extraordinary new friends. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small.

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