How Octopuses Taste Things Just By Touching Them

Among their many unique talents, octopuses can taste objects with a mere touch of a suction-cup-covered tentacle.

According to Gizmodo, a team of researchers has finally gotten to the bottom of how these cephalopods perform this mysterious feat.

They discovered a distinct population of cells located on the tips of the suckers, which they named 'chemotactile receptors.