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The octopus has three hearts
And blue blood, too.
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Jordi Miralles
20 Jul 2026
An octopus has three hearts: two pump blood through the gills, and a third pushes it to the rest of the body.
Its blood is blue because it carries oxygen using a copper-based molecule called haemocyanin, rather than the iron-based haemoglobin in our red blood.