Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Two of the hearts pump blood to the gills, and the third pumps it to the rest of the body. Their blood is blue because it carries oxygen using a copper-based molecule called hemocyanin, instead of the iron-based hemoglobin that makes our blood red.

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