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edit their own RNA
Octopuses can edit their own RNA in response to temperature — massively recoding neural proteins as the water warms or cools.
SrcCell (Birk et al., 2023)

Next evidence →2,240 suckersA female giant Pacific octopus carries about 2,240 suckers; each sucker holds roughly 10,000 chemoreceptor cells.

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