The Miraculous Octopus
This week join Roger Billings and the Science Live crew in an exploration of one of nature’s most remarkable creatures: the octopus!
We’ll learn about the octopus’s remarkable camouflage abilities and the science that allows them to change color and texture in as little as 200 milliseconds. Did you know they have no backbone and not one, but three hearts! Discover more fascinating facts and fun stories about these remarkably intelligent creatures.
This episode also includes updates on Acellus World – a new cyber school program, and don’t miss the hilarious segment where R51 attempts — with mixed results — to train an octopus named Octagon.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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Hello from Florida! This octopus episode was so cool! See you next week!
Good broadcast tonight.
I loved this live!! See y’all next week!
Good science live.
Hey from Texas!
Hello from NJ!
I didn’t know they had blue blood. So interesting!
Amazing video !! Thank you.
Loved the science live today, Octupi are so interesting, I’m really hoping Roger Billings can consider adding a speech and debate course
hello from texas
Oh wow! Science rocks!
Science is so amazing!
Just amazing, the best yet.
Thanks for putting this on I loved it!
Octopus are really fascinating animals.
Hello from Maryland 1 question I have is how do octopuses have nine brains and three hearts?
Hi everyone, Anna here from Brooklyn, New York, USA.
That was so interesting about the Octopus!!! I knew that octopuses are so cool and interesting but but didn’t that they were this cool and interesting!!!
Thank you Science Live!!! ☺️
Hi from nevada
Wow cool video today and the octopus.
It was interesting about octopus camouflauge cell consist 3 parts
Like r 15
Octopi are such amazing creatures, how they can camouflage, spray ink, learn from prior mistakes, and learn to use objects to run or hide from predators is impressive! Scientists still have so much to research regarding the intelligence and abilities of an octopus. Thank you Science Live for another fascinating week of knowledge and Acellus for an affordable school curriculum!
Oh wow! Science is super cool.
It’s so cool seeing that octopus can camouflage!
It was very interesting to learn about how smart octopuses are.
I learn something new on this all the time
I loved seeing the octopus camouflage, it looked so cool and it’s crazy how they can change their color in seconds!
I’ve always loved Octopodes
It was fun learning aboat oxtpes
Hello from missouri
Thank you again for teaching us about the wonderful creature the octopus!
Hi everyone glad to be in Science Live
Octopus can blend into the environment by changing the color of their skin. Some may say that octopus are smart and use objects as a tool to defend itself from prey.
you always earn something insane everyday 😅 love watching these!
Octopi are like the closest thing to alien life we have without being literal aliens
I posted a comment on the last episode but I watched this one. I’m not sure how it’s been confused. The mimic octopus is one of my favorite.
Wow!! Super cool.
Acellus world is gonna be awesome!
I could barely watch this with my trypophobia but incredibly interesting creatures for sure!
Octopuses are the best hiders in the sea
bye bye see net week
So good I love this!!!!
The octopus is such a fascinating creature!!
Octupus’s are so cool! loved this episode.
How cool
I enjoyed learning something new!
I have a question and a comment tonight. My question is now that you are monitoring our time on Science Live, are we still supposed to comment every week, or is it optional? My comment is that I thought it was hilarious when R51 would get on the phone to Big R, the octopus would do whatever Little R had asked him to do. I really liked this episode and learning more about octopi.
This was so cool!
I didn’t know that octopuses have 9 brains
I love the octopus 😎😝
hello from tennessee!
octopus are so neat!
Thank you for this week’s episode, I enjoyed learning about how an octopus can change colors that’s so cool!
I enjoyed tonight’s live thanks.
Hi from Tennessee.
so cool the. Octupus
They have 8 legs
That’s actually cool that they’re able to disguise underwater; I thought only chameleons could do that
I didn’t know they use coconuts for shelter
Hi from Texas
I love the octopus!!
The octopus is such an interesting creatures with how unique it is, it’s intelligence, camouflaging capabilities and just simply how it is able to move around easily.
this was a great live tonight !
Octopus are really cool and interesting.
Where did you get the glass octopus?
thankyou see you next time!!!
the octopus interestingly is a wonderful…..thing
Hi I love rockets and space I love science live too
That was cool
Hi from New York! I’m gonna miss this school
very interesting live
Wow Nice!
Octopuses are so cool.
great information
Thank you! See you all next Wednesday!
Hiiii so excited for todays video and to learn about the octopus and what facts you share about them!!!!
Extremely fascination by the way the Octopus can blend in with things the way they can.
LOL r51 tryed to change the color and he just sit there. i always look forward to r51… i like his name for the octopus… Mr. octagon
I enjoyed watching this so much! I can’t wait to see what else this has in store!
What a cool video, I’ve learned so much can’t wait for next weeks!
I couldn’t imagine an octopus can become so small! Thank you for the discovery!
nice octopus video
Is there any way to replicate the part where octopus change their skin color, and put it on amor for the millitary?
love acellus cant wait for next weeks!!
I enjoyed learning about The Miraculous Octopus.
great live I can’t wait to learn more
I enjoyed this live!!
This is so cool.
That was really cool! I look forward to the next one!
Comment: who created the first piano?
That was really cool, I knew a little about octopuses but not a whole lot, and now I do which is really fun because I absolutely love animals! I think its amazing that they have so many brains and even more than one heart. Thank you for another awesome science live!
R-51 needs to put down the phone
WOW I didn’t know that the legs of an octopi had each a brain!
Octopuses change color instantly using specialized skin cells called chromatophores.
Along with color, they can change skin texture to mimic rock or coral.
Hello from Georgia! 🍑
This is so cool
Watching from Virginia!!
I think it is cool how we got to learn about the Artemis Program.
I thought the octopus was really cool
Howdy from Colorado :]
I really enjoyed learning about the octopus, it would be cool if they did different types of animals every week for science live.
What is a mimic?
Hi have a good nighy
this was so cool! I didn’t know octopuses were so interesting!
Wow! that octo is cool!
Hello this was a great video
amazing lecture
Can’t wait for Acellus world
It is cool how they got 9 brains one in every tentacle it is cool
This live was super cool! Love to see more.
cute octopus and cool live
great episode
the octopus really is amazing
Hi From ATL Cant wait for the protogés they are so cool 🫡
Octopuses are so cool! I’ve always had a love for sea creatures.
Hi from Mississippi!
i like the ocktpoos
WOW THAT WAS AMAZING I LOVE OCTOPUSS!
Thank you. See you next week.
Actually we like Acellus without going through a local school, because we like to do Acellus year around, and sometimes take less than the full class load, so there is no pressure. Local schools have a strict timeline. They want students to take at least 6 classes every semester, and be done by June. It doesn’t work for us. We LIKE going to school year around. And we would rather go to highschool for 5 years, and have other activities, than get highschool done as fast a possible and wait until we are older for other activities.
Comment Question: How does is camoflauge?
Is this working? I’m not sure, but I love the science live!
the octopus was cool!
The octopus is awesome!
I really enjoyed learning about the octopus thank you so much!
Did you know that some octopuses like going for walks on the beach?
Hi from california!
Hello from NC!
The octopus on Dr.Billing’s desk are beautiful.
Great video as always!!
I thought it was cool to learn about octopus this time and I didn’t know that if the beak can fit into something the hole body can
Thank you Roger Billings
I enjoyed learning about octopus.
I learned that octopuses have 3 hearts from Finding Dory.
Love octopuses!
Octopuses are my Favorite Crustacean Creatures Greetings From Texas
The octopus, Octagon, did everything R-51 asked! I also believe octopuses are one of the smartest animals in the world!
Hey anyone else from the south side of Kentucky
this one was good
Hi from Mississippi! Awesome!
Watching From Missouri
great live
Hi from sc My favorite part was the octopus can change color but they might be colored blind
Could there be an octopus species that can survive in the deep sea?
Science Live this week was very entertaining, the octopus is truly a very unique creature.
That’s incredible they can even make themselves look like the texture!
I want to visit acellus world but im nowhere close!
It’s so cool that an organism that seems so different than us, is so much more similar in intelligence! I’m especially surprised that they have the ability to think ahead, just like us, and even get out of tough situations.
This video was very inspirational I learned a lot of cool things about an octopus.
Have you by chance seen the Mark Rober YouTube video where he purchases a octopus and puts it through some drills and tests and he passes them all?
Thank you for the in-depth look at how octopi do and utilize these amazing abilities!
WOW, this science live was great
WE NEED ACELLUS WORLD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW PLZZZZZZZZZ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Cool show
i love octopus’s now
octopus are so cool, and intresting.
How many lives does the octopus has?
Octopuses are amazing!
ive always loved octopi!
Hello from Texas
Wow, octopuses are pretty cool!
Wow! Just wow! That coconut thing is really cool!
hello from Kentucky
Watching from mississippi
,Wonderful live thank you!
bye see y’all next week
How old is the oldest octopus ever recorded
thank you for teaching me about the octopus they are really cool!
I’m here late but here
Another great night of Science Live and witnessing R-51! Have a good rest of the day, everyone!
Wow octopi are awesome😄
I never new a octopus was so cool👀
This was a cool live thanks
Octopus are one of my favorite animals!
Todays show was very intristing
Theirs different sizes of sharks so are their different size octopus we don’t know of?