{"id":117803,"date":"2020-12-30T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/octopus-and-squid-evolution-is-officially-stranger-than-we-could-have-ever-imagined"},"modified":"2020-12-30T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:22:54","slug":"octopus-and-squid-evolution-is-officially-stranger-than-we-could-have-ever-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/octopus-and-squid-evolution-is-officially-stranger-than-we-could-have-ever-imagined","title":{"rendered":"Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Stranger Than We Could Have Ever Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octopus-and-squid-evolution-is-officially-stranger-than-we-could-have-ever-imagined2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, they really sound \u201calien-like\u201d if you ask me. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Just when we thought octopuses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/octopuses-are-able-to-see-with-their-skin-new-research-says\">couldn\u2019t be any weirder<\/a>, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising twist, in April 2017 scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.<\/p>\n<p>This is weird because that\u2019s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation \u2014 a change to the DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, they really sound \u201calien-like\u201d if you ask me. \ud83d\ude03 Just when we thought octopuses couldn\u2019t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet. In a surprising twist, in April 2017 scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}