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Octopuses Are Colorblind. Here’s How They See the World

  • Writer: Debra Quick-Jones
    Debra Quick-Jones
  • Jan 3, 2024
  • 1 min read

This article does not explain how octopuses actually match the color in their backgrounds. I like to believe that there are organs in the skin, as yet to be discovered. National Geographic has a good article:

Ramirez and Oakley showed that the octopus's skin also contains opsin, but not in the chromatophores. Instead, its opsins reside in small hair-like structures called cilia. People used to think that the octopus used these cilia as organs of touch; they still could be, but they might also detect light too.May 20, 2015


Octopuses, and Maybe Squid, Can Sense Light With Their Skin



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