This has led me down an extremely confusing road in which I have learned that open ocean octopi that fold their body into nautilus shapes were known to the greeks and named 'argonauts' BY them, and the nautilus was discovered later and named for their resemblance TO ARGONAUTS
So i've known for a while that octopuses have naturally short lifespans, dying shortly after reproduction, but what I just learned is that their hormone-triggered death process doesn't just make them waste away, it actually disrupts their mental functioning to the point that