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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I absolutely adore octopuses! My favorite one is the blue ringed octopus!
I love octopus
love this week!
Woa ! Octopus are cool animals. I like octopus.
This week’s science live was so good, I cant wait for the next.
Octopuses really are incredible animals! They can produce beautiful colors in so little time!
I love Acellus
The octopus is an amazing creature!!!!!!🐙
10/10 I love acellus!
this was so cool!
I think the octopus is amazing because it can change color.
This lesson was well thought out.
you guys do a lot of things and I like it it is super cool its been cool
Todays video was intertaining.
I think the octopus is the most amazing animal. I Hope to one day be a Marine biologist and be able to study them more. We were able to see one in an aquarium in Malta a couple summers ago and o remember sitting there for such a long time watching it because we were lucky to get there at feeding time. They put the food in a sealed container and it was able to open it !
Loved this weeks science live!!!
This lesson is amazing! Octopuses are like superheroes of the sea
I love science live!!!!!
This was a great episode.
How many sea animals can a mimic octopus copy?
Octopuses are so cool I like how they can camouflage their tentacles and all the cool things they can do.
octopus seems very clever and smart. It’s amazing how they can mimic colors to blend in and act like other animals. I learned a lot from this video.
The footage showing the octopus changing its skin color and texture to blend in was absolutely unreal! I loved Lady Pajet’s reaction to their incredible camouflage skills.
I really liked this science live about the octopus. I thought it was neat to learn that they can change color and texture in 200 milliseconds! I didn’t know octopus has 3 hearts. I like how they mimic other sea creatures based in their environment.
This was the bestest science live ever
I love octopuses
loved learning about the octopus, very intresting \
How is it possible for octopuses to change their colors when they are color blind and get the correct color as well?
idk that is a good question
Octopus are technically color blind because their eyes contain only one type of photoreceptor, which perceives the world in grayscale. Despite this, they are masters of camouflage, likely using their uniquely shaped, wide, U-shaped pupils to create chromatic aberration, which acts like a prism, letting them detect color by focusing different wavelengths. (I got this from Google search, searching up the question, “Are octopus color blind?”)
This is really interesting to me, first of all, I love animals and reptiles of all kinds, and when you voiced your question, that made me curious, so I searched it up, planning to post it in here, for anyone who’s not allowed to access the internet.
I hope I was able to answer your question, Elliot! 😁(Even though I’m not a specialist or anything. 🤣)
10/10 I LOVE THIS WEEK LIVE
That was a interesting video!
I enjoy these science lives. Can’t wait for next week.
Octopus are cool but my favorite sea animal is definitely a Sea Bunny
I love octopuses, they’re my favorite sea animal
Octopuses are so interesting!!
Loved this episode!! Octopuses are cool!!
I loved this episode! Hopefully we get to see more animal-based episodes in the future!
I want to be a Marine biologist 🐙🦑🐡🦀🦞🦐🪼🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🦈🦭
I like how they talked about octopuses
Wow cool 😎 🙂
Same I love to study sharks
If only it was possible for R-51 to invent living creatures, or at least make new species. I would love to see octopus-51!
Yes, but Octagon has 8 legs, not 12. Silly r51 miscounted Octagon’s legs!
I know right
Paul the Octopus was a common octopus at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who gained international fame by accurately predicting the results of all 7 of Germany’s matches in the 2010
This is a great creature
Miraculous! Spectacular Godfather of Hydrogen!
R51’s phone call was hilarious! Also, I loved the Kansas City Royals baseball story.
Really great episode!! I love octopuses
Thank you this live loved learning about octopus they are simply amazing creatures
R-51 was funny
Could you hypothetically take and train an octopus to do just about anything
Hello from Indiana! I cannot wait for acellus world! My family and I are going!!
Wow٫ Octopi are so interesting! I found it very inventive how that one figured out it could make a little hiding spot in the coconut.
Omg I’ve been wanting a pet octopus for years and I’ve always been scared it would escape.
Science Live is the best! I enjoyed hearing about the Octupus having photosensittivity.
I did not realize how cool they are!
Octopus are some really cool animals. My favorite one is the blue ring octopus.🐙
Me too!
The Seattle aquarium has a really cool tube that you can stand by or under and watch the octopus go through it. Loved this video.
wow!!! octopus are so cool
Science Live is my favorite!
I loved this episode! It was so interesting to learn all the different facts about the octopus; I never knew how smart and intelligent they were. I cannot wait for the next episode of Science Live!
I wish I was as flexible as an octopus.
Hi Acellus family. I really liked learning about octopus’s. Thank you Dr. Roger Billings.
The octopus is such an interesting creature. There are so many things we can learn from it!
Science is my favorite subject.
How do Octopuses get so smart? Or why are they so smart?
They’re incredibly intelligent
. I think Page Monet is a cool person. Her laugh is fun. Are octopus smarter than a dog?
I love Science Live.
Great episode! I love animals and sea creatures!
Not too long ago I watched a documentary on octopuses with my dad! They’re really smart and cool and look like little aliens. I also think that their colors and patterns are really pretty.
that is so cool. I love learning about octopuses.
I love science.
I recently saw something about a guy rescuing an octopus from a market and raising him. He taught the octopus (whose name is Taco) how to play the piano.
Science is so cool.
I love octopuses there so cool and I love there uniqueness.
Thank you Acellus
Spectacular Live today !*
I love octopuses there so cool
Wow Science Live is awesome!
The world is so fascinating.
Thats amazing
science live is so fun too watch i love it
this is awesome
Is it possible octopuses are colorblind to the colors humans see but can see their own unique colors?
Octupus being able to change colors is so cool to me!
wow thats so cool that octopuses can fit into such small spots! everytime i come to science live im bound to learn something new.
Octopus are so amazing I did not know they could be so cool I love how they can change color and texture! Its so cool!
I love science live!
that’s awesome
1. Me and that octopus would get along
2. could a Octopus code a whole game if trained in java script?
Wow octupi are super awesome! I didn’t know how gifted they were with their mimicry and even smarts!
I really love animals.
Science live is so cool.
I never really paid attention to how amazing octopuses are! And by the way the video glitched 2 or 3 times and it was starting the video over so that’s why it might look like I skipd some parts of it.
I loved this science live!
science helps every day life so much
That was so cool. I didn’t know that octopuses could change color and blend in. Does it have a beak like mouth or a mouth under its tentacles?
An octopus can almost fit into ANYTHING! Its so cool.
I love Science Live! it so great because everytime I watch it I learn something new! I think it is so that octopus have 3 hearts 🙂
I love octopuses!
I love to find out new facts from science live.
Octopi are so cool
This is so cool!
Octopuses are so smart.
I love watching octopus try and solve puzzles as well as change color to better survive in their environment.
The octopus is very cool! I didn’t know they had three hearts. That’s really neat. I think it’s cool they can change their colors to blend in with their environment.
i love this
Octopuses are so cool great science live!
Great episode of Science Live this week.
If we do the school district pays for tuition then would we have to attend the school?
I love octopi
Science live is awesome! I love watching it, because I know everytime I watch it I will learn something new! I think it’s so cool that octopus have three hearts 🙂
I agree with what you guys all said, Science LIVE is AWESOME!
I love How it can fit in anything. imagine playing hide and seek with it 😂🤣😅
super neat that they can recognize faces !
could you make a creative creative AI like Caine from the amazing digital circus
Really loved the concept of this weeks video
Gotta love Science Live every week!!
Very different this week!! Loved it!!
awesome sience live
It is so interesting how the mimic octopus imitates other animals. I can’t believe that octopuses can change their color in two tenths of a second. I did not know octopuses had nine brains. The cyber school program looks like it is going to be a profound help to both the students and the schools.
Such a good science live!
This science live was so cool! I love too hear about the octopuses! I can’t believe that they have 9 brains!!
Also I definitely think that you guys should get an octopus!
It was really cool to learn all these interesting facts about octopus! really liked this Science Live!
i loved learning about octopus i didnt know thaey had 9 brains
Thank you for this information!
The octopus \
The octopus is such an amazing crecher.
I Didn’t know that octopuses are this smart
science live is so helpful
Science gives us stories about reality that we can actually test.
This weeks live was very helpful and cool!
This is a cool science live
Great video keep the good work up.
Learning about the octopus was cool.
i love science live so much
How many different types of octopi are there?
The Octopus is such a cool animal.
Science Live is cool, and the magic 8 tile is cool
Here from Missouri
I love science live
I really like this one’s topic!
I hope they make a better material for batteries.
Science live is one of my favorite things and keeps me pumped for the next every week!
Awesome sience live. Can’t wait till next week.
Hello guys thanks for the informational video!
My favorite part was about the octopus spraying ink. That was so cool!
I like stuff that is live
How does a octopus DNA change with the body color?
Great job on science live everyone see you next week!
Science live is so cool
They change colors
Love this weeks topic!
I like this a lot
Great live
I love Science Live!
Is there a world record for the smallest thing an octopus has fit in?
Really cool.
I wonder if i can get a pet mimic octopus
I love acellus
Another amazing video. Can’t wait for the next one.
Thank you for the live acellus
I like how they can do two things at once
Cool vid!
Science live is valuable for learning
i love this!
this was awesome
I liked the part about the octopus changing colors.
It was cool
I absolutely love marine biology! Thanks for touching on that subject.
Octopi are definitely my favorite because of there color changing abilities and how smart they are.
That’s funny how the octopus carried the coconut
the octopus is my favorite animal because it is so cool and interesting
thank you Dr. billings i cant wait to see you at Acellus world next year and meat my friends on Acellus!!! also i love octopus there are so fascinating also i want 9 brains no far lol.
I’ve been into marine biology and I had read about the abilities of octopuses quite a bit, it was cool seeing it in a science live video
cool science live it is always interesting and amazing.
wow i cant believe how cool octopuss are
I love science live!
Octopuses are so cool its fun learning more about them.
Seeing that octopus get out of that jar was really cool to see
I love Acellus! 🙂
I love this science live octopus are so interesting!
Love listening about science! Makes me really questioning how everything works!
Octopi are incredible creatures!!!
Can you please talk about the navy seals? I am really wanting to learn a little more about it.
Madelyn Maugham.
I love science live
Science live rocks!
super cool!
Do they chew their food or just swallow?
I didn’t know octopuses were so advanced. Their ability to change color and texture is really amazing.
I didn’t know they could talk lmao.
I think it is cool how they can fit in the smallest places