A Hawaiian creation myth suggests that our world emerged from the ruins of another. Everything we see was formed anew, but for one survivor from a previous age: the octopus.
Technically mollusks, with large brains that are organized in a distinctly different way from ours, octopuses may be the planet’s smartest invertebrates. Many-limbed, totally boneless and with skin color and texture that can change in a heartbeat, octopuses seem downright otherworldly. To meet one is to come as close as we can get to an intelligent alien.
