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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Super cool live!
I love it! This was very interesting!
Wow I learned something new tonight.
Its so amazing what science dose!
Hi from Georgia
I love the Octopus!
I loved today’s episode!! The octopus is so cool !
Hi from Kirkland WA.
the octopus is adorable! absolutely love these lives!
Octopus are very clever. I watched one go through different mazes for treats.
Great show I need a red phone lol
Hi from FL!
My favorite animals are octopus’s!
Can an Octopus survive in an outside aquarium year round?
Here from FL
I love Octopi! They’re really cool creatures.
I find it interesting getting to learn about different things and the octopus
to many cool things on a octopus that i cant explain.
wow so cool
Yeah octopuses are a lot cooler than I thought!!
WOAH THIS IS SO COOL THIS IS MORE COOL THEN TV.
I love the octopus. It was very interesting 🤔 from Florida
Hello from CT
In my opinion octopuses are on of the coolest animals to exist!
I learned about Octopie. Octopie changes color. And I find them weird mostly because of their look.
Wow I learned something new tonight.
Thank you so much for this educating and very funny episode!!!
I love the ocean and everything about it so of course learning more about one of the oceans’ amazing creatures was so great! I would love to see more episodes about more of our earths awesome creatures! 🙂 Thank you for always being a highlight of my week!
I love science live
I apologize for being late
I love science live!
This is absolutely my new favorite episode! I love anything involving the ocean and animals! cant wait to tune in next Wednesday. 🙂
This was so interesting
Hello from Idaho!
I love octopi
In this weekly video, I learned new things about octopus I never knew before!
I love science live!
Wow thats so cool I never knew how interesting octopus really were.
This is so cool!
Amazing Episodeee!!!!!
this was interesting.
Today episode was awesome! Thank you.
Love this so much
Love the Science live❤️❤️
Hello from Texas!
I loved learning about the mimic octopus.
cool how the octopus can mimic other species
Thank you all for doing science live for us all!🥰🥰💗
Hello, it’s Aaliyah from Kentucky!!
The live was very fascinating love the part about octopuses superduper entertaining!
amazing science live
I love these!!
Excellent show this week.
hello from illinois! hope u have a wonderful day
Wow!! I didin’t know that the octopus was so cool!!😃
What is the difference between octopi and squids?
Hello from Colorado!
So many creatures things to learn about
These are so interesting to watch you learn so much stuff
Thank you for the live!
I love learning about animals!!🐅🐈🐁🐒🦍🦎🦌
Octopus have always inspired me, they are truly fascinating. I love watching science live and learning, see you next week
wow what a live!
I can’t wait for next week’s live!
i rlly liek this live, I also love octopus
hi from baton rouge
I loved how the octopus picked up the coconut!
This was so cool.
Thank you for such a great Acellus live video today. It was amazing. Octopus is all it also has three hearts that I should share that but the other things that I did not know.
I love octopuses!!
Octopus are very smart. They are cool creatures!
I can’t wait to watch this Science Live. I love octopi. They are extremely smart.
sooo cool
a stuffed octopus funny!!!!!!!
great live!
Science live is so fun learning
I love science livee!
The mimic octopus/octopi was SO COOL. That’s CRAZY how they can just instinctually mimic other creatures! (I wish I could do that :] )
This was the best video. I like the little Octopus!
I loved the octopus and changing colors when R51 wasn’t looking.
Today’s live was super cool with the octopus!
I didn’t know about Octopus’ mimicking abilities. That is so interesting!
I didn’t know that the octopus could do all that, cool!
Love this episode!
Omg, octopus blood is blue…
very interesting
I loved this weeks episode! The octopus was so funny!
I love octopus! I have always thought their movements were so elegant and yet very tactful in their purpose!!
Octopuses are the closest thing we have to alien life, they’re so neat!
Love from NY!
Science live is so exited
I love octopus
octopus are neat
So cool I can’t wait for the next one!
I hope you had a great day during school and love you
great broadcast as always!!
LOVED learning about the octopus! Can’t wait for next week video
If each octopus tentacle has its own brain, could it survive on its own?
Yall make science so fun for me
Third time watching science live! I always thought I knew everything about octopuses until today, I learned how octopuses can camouflage and what the mimic octopus can do. I am surprised that scientists figured out how to use dirt to power a battery to help the environment more. I loved the Area 51 show and I love Science Live!
Amazing vid, 10/10
these lives are so inspiring!
The Mimic Octopus changes what they mimic based on the environment.
Octopuses use venom to catch their prey
I think the Octopus is my favorite animal now!
Going to love this one
Today’s a little bit of a sad day, lost a family member a long time ago so this made me so much happier thank’s.
hello from the Midwest, United States
Always love science live
Science life is awesome
I like R51 and that he told the octopus to change colors and he did when he wasn’t looking.
Hi from tn
Wow I didn’t know octopus’s could be so cool!
thank you fior this science live
So much stuff i didn’t know about a octopus!
Its amazing to have an octopus as a pet at home hahaa*
Octopuses are so cool! But I also like the flavor of them lol 😅
Its so cool to learn about octopus.
The octopus was so cool!
I love R51
Enjoying Science Live!
I love octopi always wanted one as a pet
sooo coool!!!
Octagon is a naughty Octopus. Lol
Hello from dtx!
It was very interesting to learn about the octopus. Thanks for the information.
Can the Octopus become invisible by camoflaging itself?
Yes! I loved learning about octopuses! This is my favorite episode of Science Live by far!
Hi from Houston Texas
octopus are pretty intelligent.
Love this video! Thank you.
I always knew that octopus’s could camouflage, but everytime I see it I’m more and more amazed. These creatures are truly unique.
Octopuses are one of the most interesting organisms ever discovered; with a whopping nine brains and three hearts, it’s really the closest aliens we have.
This is amazing !! I never knew octopus’ had different species..so interesting!
Octopusses are so cool!!
Nice live, The science live is so interesting!
That octopus was a sight to see
Awesome video
Wow! alot of information has been shared i will definitely take them to note such as the important information regarding the graduation and science live. Cannot forget about the octopuses too great science live!
an octopus is very smart
Learning more about the octopus, my favorite animal, was very fun for me and I was able to get to learn some things I hadn’t known before!
this live was so fun, the octopus look so cute!
An octopus is very fascinating and their ability to change colors and squeeze into tight spaces is very fascinating to me. It might be the smartest creature ever..
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I love R51!!SO cool!!
It was very interesting
can octopusses turn every color at once
I thought it was cool that some of the batteries have expensive components inside of them and that it was bad for the environment and they have to put microbes of dirt to give it power but not to much, and I thought it was cool that the octopus can camouflage into it’s environment and how they do it, and that the octopuses skin is like a HD TV and that they are like pixels but they are not, they are called chromatophores, and they are like mirrors, and some people think that they are colorblind! And that there blood is blue and that I think the octopuses are the smartest animals in the sea.
So cool!
”octagon” is not going to do that when you are watching R-15🤣🤣🤣🤣
wow I really liked this video this week
Wow! I didn’t know these stuff about octopuses!!! this is so cool!!!
This was such a nice live! See you next week!!
such a fun live!!
Octopus is such an amazing creature and very cool.
The octopus is awesome!
Science is the best class.
I loved watching today’s episode of science live!
Hello from Oregon!
lila from nebraska!
I think it’s super interesting how octopuses can change their color based off their surroundings even though they’re color blind, and I had no idea that they could squeeze into holes that small!
And all this time, I thought that an octopus was just a big, ugly fish with eight tentacles and five hearts
Great live!
I’m amazed by these
They are so smart!
Hi from AL. I liked this video.
This is the best
The Octopus opening the jar was very fascinating!
Thats was very fascinating about the octopus especially the fact that the have 3 hearts and their blood is blue.
😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹the protoges are so funny
I loved watching this!! The octopus is so cool
Hi from Texas!!
Here from Savannah
cool videos
Nice video
Octopus are such cool and complex creatures.
This is definitely my favorite live meeting ever! It was so much fun and very interesting. I hope for more lives like this in the future! :)) Greetings from California! 💕