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🐙 NEW: Researchers first filmed #Octopus insularis cycling between long quiet #sleep and short active bursts with #color and #texture changes every 30 to 40 minutes.

A later #study on Octopus laqueus used #brain probes and found that those active bursts lasted about a minute and came with wake-like neural activity, especially in #learning and #memory regions.

👉 https://scienceblog.com/n-a-sleeping-octopus-doesnt-just-go-still-its-skin-flickers-through-color-changes-and-texture-shifts-with-twitches-recurring-every-30-to-40-minutes-a-second-more-active-sleep-stage/

#neuroscience #animalbehavior #marinebiology #cephalopod #biology #science #dreams #animals #wildlife #ocean #research #nature