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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the science live was great i loved the part abt the octopus one of my favorite animals
Acellus gold is so cool!
accelus gold is on 🔥!
I love this video
I didn’t know that octopues had so many features!!!
I wish i didn’t live so far away to be able to go to Acellus world.
Octopuses are so cool!!
hello from tn
Great episode guys!
🐙🐙🐙 I am not a hug fan of octopus but now I like them. and thank you all for every thing you have taught me I love these classes.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🎉I am done with 2 of my classes.
Octopi are some of my favorite animals!
I think penguis r better
love this episode, have an amazing day everyone
This is cool
Hi my name is Chloë and I learn today the octopus has three brains and nine hearts that’s really interesting to find out but I don’t like that they changed the subject but this was really good keep it up!
Octopuses have always been my favorite animal, except there tenticales have always freaked me out
howdy Kalila from Texas
How is the octopus so smart?
great vid
Science Live videos are fun to watch and are educational.
a OCTOPUS! this is so cool.
Octopui are amazing. I had no idea they were venomos.
WHA-WHAT??? ?VENAMOUS??
only some
Awesome vid!
Super interesting !!! Thank you!
I enjoyed science live!!!!
I have a name for Claudia’s pet octopus. Octo-stuffy, because it’s a stuffy.
Why did the Lady in the White Dress go to baseball?
Octopuses are straight trash
This was a very amazing video!
I never knew that octopuses were so smart! They plan ahead and recognize people! WOW!!!!
This was a great episode!
I love octopi
Wow cool octopus’s are cool!
How do octopus shot out ink?
octopuses are really interesting
Octopi are awesome but also a little creepy with all the tenticles.
octopuses are awesome i love them
The Mimic octopus is a cool creature.
Octopus are so incredibly cool I love how smart they are
Thanks for teaching us
I didn’t know octopuses can change color
I loved this one
I would love to have a Octopus that would do things I tell him to do. Changing colors would be so cool to show my friends.
have a good day
hi from Mississippi
Hi from tennnasee
I love science live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I liked that R-51 was not watching the octopus move.
Hiya, my question/comment is what research sources did you use for the video? Also the horseshoe crab has blue blood like the octupus the differnece is that their blood is the cure to lots of things (that was about the horseshoe crab).also there is a bug with the system. When you try submitting your comment and your pre signed in it makes you leave and go back to the video causing you to have to retype your comment when you go back also causing the video to reset.
I love the Octopus (Octopoda) the body parts and I didn’t know that Octopuses have 9 brains. That is so cool!
I know they have 3 hearts…
Octopi are the most interesting animal i have ever learned about.
I would really like to see what stanford is working on and keeping up with this topic.
Great video!
Thanks for the knowledge that you’ve provided for us as a whole this week.
Octopi are so cool! They can make themselves disappear. I want to make a gadget that allows humans to blend with their surroundings like the octopus.
I never knew octapi were so cool!
The octopus is my favorite animal!!
Oh, really?!
I think Octopus’s are very fascinating animals.
I like David
i like octopus
Oh yesss!!!!
I love science
Can’t wait til next weeks science live!
Great Video!
Octopus are the smartest animal in the ocean.
great lesson about octopus!
I learned a lot of new stuff about octopus from this live.
When I was little I used to love octupus did a lot of research about them, they’re really interesting and unique creatures!
Octopus are so cool!!
Can’t believe this weeks episode is about my moms favorite animal!!!
how do tardigrades work?
i love are 51
I like the octopus
I loved the r51
I did not know an octopus could change its colors!
love the octopus idea
Thank you Dr. Billings!
I love science live and I love the ocean especially octopuses.
Comment, The octpous is such a cool creature and i would love to learn more about them it just amazes me how they move around
Octopus are amazing creatures! Another great episode!
I love Octopi! This is one of my favorite science live episodes yet because of all of the interesting facts and baseball stories! Thank you!
cool live! i hope next one is like this! octopuses are awsome
Thank you Dr. Billings!
wow! Octopus are soooo cool!
I love octopuses and at the end that was kind of funny I love Acellus and I’ve been saving my coins to get one of the robots.
I find octopi very interesting, and I’m very glad this weeks science live covered it.
Had so much fun learning about Octopus!
I really like octopuses, this really helped me learn more about them!
I didn’t know Octopi’s blood is blue !!
that was a cool one
This is a great way of explaining!
Science live was really good this week.
this is so cool
Check out a few questions?
1. How can octopus camoflauge?
2. How can octopus fit in small holes?
It does not have bones, that’s why it can go in small holes! 🐙🐙🐙
WAIT, THAT RHYMES! Bones and holes!
This was so fun, I learned so much about octopi I didn’t know!
octopi i think that we should invent a machine to merge our dna.
That was an awesome episode and the octopus was even cooler!
It is like paint balls on the skin!
Octopi are so unique and awesome!
This episode was so cool!
I personally think that the octopus is a really cool animal because they can grow back their arms. Thank you for todays science live.
Comment hi ily here from Texes.
can a octopus do human things like drawing
Hello from New York!!!
i held an octopuse it was a really weird feeling i also disected a squid
I love science
I like that the octopus are so intelligent
I’ve always wanted to eat an octopus.
Octopus really are amazing creatures
I liked learning about the mimic octopus. They are really cool.
To me Octopus is the most smart and unique aquatic creature.
An Octopus is so cool and a little weird, but in a good way.
i love wathcing sience live every week it teaches me new things all the time , that i even watch old episodies
Wow those Octopus are like humans .
I did not know that researchers from Northwestern University have been trying to find a more sustainable battery solution and that solution is dirt.
octopuses are so cool
Hello from New Jersey!
Loved learning about the octopus changing colors, so neat! Looking forward to next weeks video!
If octopuses are able to mimic around fifteen creatures, be able to shoot ink to confuse predators, and fit through any hole that is larger than their beak, how is the environment able to ensure their population doesn’t grow to an amount that endangers other species.
Thank you for another great video!
Octopi can fit into any hole as long as it’s bigger than their beak. They are amazing.
alost every thing we make is based on animals like the plane its to get place to place but inpired by the bird.
Great live! keep it up.
Interesting video!! So cooll!!!!
Octupus are one of the coolest sea creatures in the sea. Unique and interesting
Had a fun time learning about Octopi this week!! thank you
Wow, the Octopus is so smart!
The Octopus is a very strange animal.
Octopuses have amazing brains! They are such cool animals!
Octupus is so cool
Commenting this live was amazing i liked how they talked about octopus
Grear video today!
Octopuses are so cool and interesting to learn about!
I think the Octopus is the most unique animal on Earth, I’ve never seen such a smart animal.
The octopus is almost like an alien!
Octopi are so unique . They are such smart animals
I loved hearing about the octopus. They are one of my favorite creatures.
Great week! Enjoyed learning about the octopi, unique topic.
I love octopuses because they’re so smart
I love Octopi! This was so entertaining
wen did the octopus get so smart
The octopus is probably an alien.
Octopi are one of my favorite sea creatures.
How many colors does an octopus have?
Hello Genesis from Delaware.
Cool Episode!
It’s amazing how breathtakingly smart octopi are. They have amazing functions such as a brain in each arm and three hearts, and are extremely playful. It is truly amazing how octopi have evolved to be this intelligent. Nature and it’s ways are truly a wonder.
science live is great
Time for Science Live.
thank you so much for this interesting program about the octopus!
and thank you for having the opportunity to teach our children at home!!!!!!
i love sea creatures!
I think octopus are such cool sea creatures!
It was interesting learning about how the octopus can camouflage itself.
Hi from South Carolina
Wow. Those octopuses are amazing creatures!
Did you know that an octopus a brain in each leg?
I liked seeing the octopus do the maze.
Octopi are so cute.
Hello from Texas
science live yay
I didn’t know that an octopus has 3 hearts and that it takes them 200 milliseconds to change colors to blend in with its environment.
Let’s try this one more time-Bryson from the mitten.
I liked seeing the octopus switch colors.
I wonder if we could use chromatophores for camouflage in military settings.
Very fun presentation, octopi are such a fascinating animal to research.
Octopi are truly amazing creatures! Another wonderful Science Live!
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Octopi are such interesting creatures!
Another science live to teach us something new!
How are octipie so smart?t Its so fasinating
The octopus is a very intresting and unique animal.
I don’t like octopuses but they are interesting
This was very cool. Thank you
Octopi are amazing, I didn’t know that some of them could mimic other sea life!
awesome video!
I learned about octopus changing colors really fast.
How smart can a octopus be?
How is a octopus so smart?
I love learning new things each week from science news!
Octopuses have three hearts and have no bones at all and are very intelligent (and they do eat sharks)
What other options do students have if local schools don’t support cyber school?