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Potentially handicapped but otherwise functional: Malformations in prey capture tools show no impacts on octopus life
(Wiley, 2020-10-17)
Larval mortality is a keystone ecological factor for many benthic octopus since it mostly occurs before their settlement in the sea bottom as benthic juveniles. The literature had revealed that records of adult animals ...
Born with bristles: New insights on the Kölliker’s organs of Octopus skin
(Frontiers Media, 2021-05-10)
The entire skin surface of octopus embryos, hatchlings and juveniles bears scattered
tufts of tiny chitinous setae within small pockets, from which they can be everted and
retracted. Known as Kölliker’s organs (KO), they ...