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 want to know more about the ocean.
so cool so cool yay!!!!!!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!!
It’s so crazy that they can just change color like that!
Octopi are very interesting creatures being able to fit in small areas like that fishing boat. It is really cool how they could be trapped inside a jar and get themselves out.
i love octopus so so cool name : Myka <3
r51 the octopus did everything you told it to do.
it crazy how octopus can move
I love learning facts about octopus
Wow! That’s awesome!!
This weeks episode was so cool! I had no idea that octopuses were so uniquely talented!
How old can an octopus live.
Octopi are SO cool, crazy how smart they are!
This was a great science live!!!!
Does the octopus automatically know the patterns it uses, or does it have to see the animal and pattern of it first?
love the video
I really loved this lesson today!! 😀
I’m pretty sure that the mission impossible movies would make more sense if Ethan Hunt was an octopus
How intriguing! Octopi are some interesting creatures!
The octopus is really cool
Octposus are strange, but kind of cool
Octopus are some of my favorite animals
Octopuses are my favorite animals! They are so intelligent
Octopi r sooooo cool! hey from IN!
I love acellus
octopus are so cool
Krymsyn
octopuses are really cool and smart i love science live
Octopuses are the most interesting creatures humanity has come across they are extremely smart they’re body can fit through any hole and most octopuses have ink sac’s to act like a smoke screen and if you get some on you its almost impossible to wash off.
I loved learning all that information about octopuses.
thank you for the amazing video😻👍
Cyber School sound like the future of school.
Learning about the octopus has got to be the greatest thing Science Live has ever done! I hope the next episode is just as great!
Octopus are so cool!
Thanks for this weeks science live!
The octopus may be my new animal.
Personally I like sea bunnies more
Wow! loved this episode!
octopus have such cool facts
Thank you for the live!
3 hearts for an octopus is crazy. Wow!
I think octopi are so cool and now I kind of want a pet octopus
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Love these video
The ocean and its animals are so cool!
great one!!!!
I love Octopus!
Loved learning about the octopus! Please do more videos on ocean creatures and life.
I love how the octopus looks! Its so cool!!!!
I had no idea octopus were so interesting!
I loved learning about octopuses.
Wow octopuses are so unique and cool!
It was very fasinating hearing all the facts and cool things about octoupuses
Octopus almost seem other-worldly! The fact they have 3 hearts is crazy!
This lesson was so cool!!!
wow amazing
Lil octagon is so cute.
It really cool how octopus can do all that.
I would love to have science lives on more marine life animals.
We already watched it but it showed us watching a different one.We did call and understand its being worked on.We love the octopus so we thought we would just watch again.Amazing creatures.Thank you
ouh really kewl =3 I love octopai (is that how you spell it?)
Octopus are my favorite animal. They are so smart. Thanks for this science live
This was so cool to learn about! The Octopus is really one of the coolest animals!
I really enjoyed learning about the octopus. It was very interesting.
Octopi are such weird creatures!
I didn’t know octopuses had 9 brains, that’s a cool fact!
I love science live! Cant wait for the next video!
That’s so cool!
I love Science Live so much 💖
Octopi are some of the best animals
Did you know that octopi is technically based on a misunderstanding of the word’s origin. Since “octopus” comes from Greek, not Latin, the “correct” classical plural would actually be octopodes! But in modern English octopuses is the most understood!
Octopuses are soon 😎 🐙.
Octopus are so cool!
DEF GOING TO REWATCH THIS ITS SOOOOO GOOD
Learning about octupi was so interesting!
I wish someone could do something about the trash in our oceans!!! Acellus should organize a group of students and teachers to help clean the waste! Maybe Roger Billings could even post a video on Youtube saying to help our oceans help reduce trash because it’s really hurting our oceans and everything in it including octopus!
Thanks for the great episode!!! I love it when we talk about animals!!! Studying animals is something I find very important and is something I think we can use to help the planet!!!!
What’s the largest artery in the human body?
thats awesome
Love the lesson on the octopus. That’s a crazy cool animal.
r 51 why why!
Octopuses are so cool
i love Octopuses
I like the part where Dr. John talked about how the octopus skin is like a bunch of pixels.
I love it so much!
We have an octopus at our aquarium he’s so cool he likes to hide in corners
Thanks for the great video, I love learning about different creatures and their unique and surprising abilities! Can you please continue to make episodes about animals?
I loved it! Listening from Georgia.
Octopus are interesting creatures but it makes you wonder what kind of other creatures really do exist deep in the ocean
The octopus is so cool
do the octopus spit out water to slide into any gap.
Wow ocean creatures are so interesting.
Never knew octoups were color blind
I love learning about the ocean!
I never knew octopuses could be so interesting!
this was good
thats so cool
Did you see when the octopus was carrying 2 shells away did you se the flat fish swimming away it was pretty hard to spot it.
I never knew Octopus had so many layers of skin. The way they camoflage is amazing!
The way the octopus camoflauged is so mesmerizing and cool to watch!
Comment octopuses have unique tentacles
The octopus is pretty cool
Octopuses have incredible abilities. How do they manage to squeeze through super small holes? 😮🐙🇦🇸
Science Live is awesome!
They are my favorite sea animal! They are so unique and amazing!
I personally thought talking about sea creatures was a unique choice that I approved of
Amazing episode, I learned so much about octopuses.
He is so smart I love it
I love this
Octopus are so cool!
the Science fair sounds like a lot of fun!
Octopuses are weird in my opinion.
Octopi are so fascinating and amazing
Octopus are such incredible creatures.
I thought that how the octopus could go into a bottle the size as its beak was cool.56
Octopus are so cool I love them and this live!
Wow I learned something new today! I never knew that octopuses have 3 hearts!
Another great vid!
Octopus are cool
Do octopus’s only live in salt water?
Octopus are so cool!
Always love learning about the ocean
That was really cool! We should do more animals.
I really enjoyed this episode about occupy, I’ve learned a lot. This proves that the most sophisticated technology has already been invented by evolution. We could learn so much more from nature.
What an interesting topic!
Pay attention R 51!
amazing video i learned so much it was very interesting.
Wow! so cool!
Octopus are extremely intelligent animals. My aunt believes they are even more intelligent than the human race and have an underground world
Wow, they’re such amazing animals!
I liked when R 51 tried to teach an octopus how to build a robot, to change color, to get in a bottle, and he also tried to teach him how to talk.
thanks for another cool video!
octopus are so interesting and cool. And they have like sucker’s on the bottom of there tentickle too.
How do the arms ma,e decisions independently of the central brain?
can you do video about sharks they are cool to learn about
9 brains, 3 hearts, octopus are so interesting and intelligent! Thank you Acellus, we love watching this program every week.
I like octopus!
How does camouflage help the octopus?
danielle here your videos are amazing
I didn’t know an octopus has 3 hearts!
I think it’s cool how a octopus has nine braines.
There’s so many things I didn’t know about octopus! I do have a question though, where are the beaks of octopus located?
I like learning about Science and different topics.
Octopus are so unique
I love this
Its so crazy how this is just one amazing creature out of the many that their are!.
An octopus would have to be so intelligent to control those individual pigment sacks! Things like these are why I don’t believe in evolution.
i like the blue ring octopus
Love learning about octopus
Learning about the octopus was cool. I really enjoyed this weeks science live. I can’t wait for the next one!
The octopus is so cool!!! Learned a lot!
R51 is so funny.
My dad is going to the World Cup this year in Houston
i like octopus
it’s so cool how they camouflage
love this video
I loved this!
Science Live is the best.
I love learning about things in the ocean
I wonder if we will ever be able to make cloaking technology similar to the octopus?
Octopus are really cool to learn about.
Wow! an octopus has 3 hearts? Thats cool!
i really think that this was a interesting video.
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Is the cyber school available in Jefferson County Ky?
I like science live
Loved learning about Octopus. Octopus are such cool creatures.
Octopus have a lot of talents
Incredible abilities octopuses have.
Octopuses are so interesting!!
i love science live!!! its great!!!!!
Octopus are really cool
Octopus are so smart
great video
Octopus are super cool.
Octopi are my favorite animal
Hello from TN
The octopi are so cool but can we learn about jellyfish next time?