Marie Kieseler, Ph.D. @mlkieseler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Our last common ancestor lived over 520 million years ago, yet octopuses independently evolved the cognitive scaffolding to learn how to use a mirror to find food! 011
Marie Kieseler, Ph.D. @mlkieseler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Excited to share that our paper on mirror use in octopuses is published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! This is the first time mirror-mediated spatial navigation has been demonstrated in an invertebrate. 🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comOctopus bimaculoides can learn to utilize a mirror to localize a reward outside the line of sightMirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb… 26222