This is why octopus is recognized as the most monstrous creature on the planet

When thinking about a creature that is considered the most bizarre, many people will choose a certain insect, or spider, or at least the size of a water bear (tardigrade) with the ability to approach immortality.

But no, that title is given to a marine creature by science. It is octopus.

Octopus has up to 3 hearts, blood in blue, capable of healing the tentacles if broken.

Even the octopus itself is a truly bizarre species. They have up to 3 hearts, blood in blue, capable of healing the tentacles if they break. And yet, they have the ability to camouflage the superiors, and especially extremely intelligent to know how to use tools to serve their lives.

However, all of this is not enough to turn the octopus into the most bizarre species on the planet. Disguised and regained lost parts? Gecko can do it! Earthworms have up to 5 hearts, while chimpanzees can also use tools when needed.

What makes the octopus different is somewhere else. It is the ability to self-regulate, redesign ARNs in the body , and this ability has existed before modern humans appeared about 200,000 years.

The reason why this ability is created is unknown, but according to scientists, the octopus today regulates RNA to serve survival when the environment temperature changes.

What is editing ARN and why is it special?

RNA editing is also quite similar to DNA, but gives better results with differences in long-term effects.

Octopus has the ability to manually edit RNA.

DNA is a small part of trillions of cells in the human body. So if you change the DNA code in a cell, it's a permanent change in the genome and transmitted over the next generation. It is also how animals evolved over millions of years.

But octopus is different. They revise RNA - which is shorter and smaller than DNA, and this allows them to "test" environmental traits without worrying about affecting the genomes of the next generation. .

"In other words, RNA mutations or RNA alterations are not as dangerous as DNA. You can do everything with RNA, try every possible possibility without worrying about sustained damage to the next generation." - quoted by Professor Eli Elisenberg from Tel-Aviv University (Israel).

Unlike DNA, RNA is not genetic, meaning you can modify RNA in every part of your body. In fact, the researchers also found that octopus can correct RNA in brain cells, so that it can grow better. Therefore, there is a hypothesis that this ability is what helps octopus to be the smartest of the current mollusks.

RNA is not genetic, meaning you can modify RNA in every part of your body.

Many animals - including humans - also possess the enzymes needed to correct RNA, but the mechanism is not effective compared to octopus. For example, people have about 10 areas of RNA editing, while octopus has tens of thousands.

Even so at the present time, CRISPR gene editing technology has allowed people to influence RNA. So it is very likely that in the future the ability to fix RNA will no longer be unique.

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