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pukicho

Not even I know the scope of my abilities.

jonleftthedisco

put some pebbles in your mouth

pukicho

Okay

pukicho

This isn’t an ability

sandersstudies

Shout out to every fast food employee who has ever offered to make my order a slightly different way so that it comes out cheaper

sandersstudies

“Can I get a 20pc nugget?”

“We are actually having a BOGO deal on 10pc nuggets, would you like to do two of those?”

“Yes and also I’m going to kiss you on the mouth when I get to the window.”

wyrmmaster

“Oh come on it can;t be that b-”

ah.

gallusrostromegalus

TRULY A MAGNIFICENT TRIUMPH FOR BOTANY

alexiealducsdrawings

I wanted to see the plant from another POV but it’s literally the only photo publicly available right now. There is however, an anatomic drawing!

Congrats! It looks like an alien!!

weltenwellen

Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

girlofdogs

all i know how to do is love and consume art and honestly that’s enough for me

24ozsteak

you ever just hand things to ur pet to sniff so they can feel included

werkaetzchen

John Waters’ Christmas Card in 1995 shows Steve Buscemi, dressed as John Waters. Photo by Betty Beebe.

sapper-in-the-wire-old

angel-kiyoss

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

fierceawakening

i wonder what they are dreaming about

plum-soup

Changing colors duh

max1461

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.