Mantis shrimp possess up to 16 photoreceptors detecting colors and polarized light humans can't see, using a unique processing system that's inspiring next-generation imaging technology from medical diagnostics to autonomous vehicles.
Octopuses possess 500 million neurons distributed across their bodies - two-thirds in their arms rather than their brain - creating a radically decentralized intelligence that challenges everything we thought we knew about how minds work. These eight-armed aliens demonstrate tool use, problem-solving, and observational learning comparable to mammals, yet achieve it through a nervous system architecture completely unlike vertebrates. Their distributed cognition is now inspiring revolutionary advan...
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