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My daughter and I have been learning about octopui and squids and I never cease to be amazed by these creatures so far removed from us on the evolutionary tree. Recently I learned how scientists studied the squids giant axons to understand our own brains.

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I recently took a class which extensively covered the early squid giant axon research. While they are very far away from us in the evolutionary tree, the overall mechanisms are very similar. You might also want to check out Otto Loewi's famous frog heart experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loewi

I believe you mean octopodes my good sir. https://youtu.be/wFyY2mK8pxk

Pip pip, cup of tea, cheerio.

i thought the same immediately: octopus is a screwy latiny-misspelled greeky word, with octopodes the plural. happy to see another knew that.

This view is "contentious" :-)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270/what-is-the-...

That it might be but it's pretty clear the Latin associated plural is misapplied.

So English has octopuses.

Greek has octopodes.

Some English speakers prefer to use the Greek word rather then the loan derived plural which uses English construction.

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