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Its brain lies just behind its eyes in what is really the body, not the head—and each time the octopus devours a snack of crab or cockles, the brain can stretch itself if need be to make room for its esophagus. Octopuses are some of the only animals found whooshing and gliding through every single ocean on the planet: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern.
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