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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8,309 Comments

  1. Anna

    I want to know more about the ocean.

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  2. Julia

    so cool so cool yay!!!!!!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!!

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  3. Braxxton

    It’s so crazy that they can just change color like that!

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  4. Drake

    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.

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  5. Myka

    i love octopus so so cool name : Myka <3

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  6. Bryce

    r51 the octopus did everything you told it to do.

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  7. Baylee

    it crazy how octopus can move

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  8. Grace

    I love learning facts about octopus

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  9. Lukas

    Wow! That’s awesome!!

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  10. Veda

    This weeks episode was so cool! I had no idea that octopuses were so uniquely talented!

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  11. Liam

    How old can an octopus live.

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  12. Noelle

    Octopi are SO cool, crazy how smart they are!

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  13. Charlotte

    This was a great science live!!!!

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  14. Madeline

    Does the octopus automatically know the patterns it uses, or does it have to see the animal and pattern of it first?

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  15. Daniel

    love the video

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  16. Emmalyn

    I really loved this lesson today!! 😀

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  17. Austin

    I’m pretty sure that the mission impossible movies would make more sense if Ethan Hunt was an octopus

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  18. Zoey

    How intriguing! Octopi are some interesting creatures!

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  19. Hannah

    The octopus is really cool

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  20. Colt

    Octposus are strange, but kind of cool

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  21. Morgan

    Octopus are some of my favorite animals

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  22. Taylor

    Octopuses are my favorite animals! They are so intelligent

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  23. Nevaeh

    Octopi r sooooo cool! hey from IN!

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  24. Tyler

    I love acellus

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  25. Krymsyn

    octopus are so cool
    Krymsyn

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  26. Andrew

    octopuses are really cool and smart i love science live

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  27. Ethan

    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.

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  28. Chloe

    I loved learning all that information about octopuses.

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  29. Russell

    thank you for the amazing video😻👍

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  30. Revan

    Cyber School sound like the future of school.

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  31. Brian

    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!

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  32. Dakota

    Octopus are so cool!

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  33. Evan

    Thanks for this weeks science live!

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  34. Leah

    The octopus may be my new animal.

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  35. Kaylee

    Personally I like sea bunnies more

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  36. Stella

    Wow! loved this episode!

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  37. Ashland

    octopus have such cool facts

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  38. Klaire

    Thank you for the live!

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  39. Lauria

    3 hearts for an octopus is crazy. Wow!

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  40. Everett

    I think octopi are so cool and now I kind of want a pet octopus
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  41. Emalyn

    Love these video

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  42. Genevieve

    The ocean and its animals are so cool!

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  43. Monte

    great one!!!!

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  44. Jessica

    I love Octopus!

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  45. Kourtney

    Loved learning about the octopus! Please do more videos on ocean creatures and life.

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  46. Camden

    I love how the octopus looks! Its so cool!!!!

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  47. Liggett

    I had no idea octopus were so interesting!

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  48. Kevin

    I loved learning about octopuses.

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  49. Allana

    Wow octopuses are so unique and cool!

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  50. Ryan

    It was very fasinating hearing all the facts and cool things about octoupuses

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  51. Eric

    Octopus almost seem other-worldly! The fact they have 3 hearts is crazy!

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  52. Avery

    This lesson was so cool!!!

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  53. Caleb

    wow amazing

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  54. Leah

    Lil octagon is so cute.

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  55. Carley

    It really cool how octopus can do all that.

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  56. Alexander

    I would love to have science lives on more marine life animals.

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  57. Dakota

    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

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  58. John

    ouh really kewl =3 I love octopai (is that how you spell it?)

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  59. Kiera

    Octopus are my favorite animal. They are so smart. Thanks for this science live

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  60. Vanessa

    This was so cool to learn about! The Octopus is really one of the coolest animals!

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  61. Charlie

    I really enjoyed learning about the octopus. It was very interesting.

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  62. Tyler

    Octopi are such weird creatures!

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  63. Geraldine

    I didn’t know octopuses had 9 brains, that’s a cool fact!

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  64. Vance

    I love science live! Cant wait for the next video!

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  65. Johnny

    That’s so cool!

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  66. Rayna

    I love Science Live so much 💖

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  67. Devon

    Octopi are some of the best animals

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  68. Kyle

    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!

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  69. Charlie

    Octopuses are soon 😎 🐙.

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  70. Peyton

    Octopus are so cool!

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  71. Meadow

    DEF GOING TO REWATCH THIS ITS SOOOOO GOOD

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  72. Antonia

    Learning about octupi was so interesting!

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  73. Annalayah

    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!

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  74. Sadie

    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!!!!

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  75. Luisa

    What’s the largest artery in the human body?

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  76. Victoria

    thats awesome

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  77. Bronson

    Love the lesson on the octopus. That’s a crazy cool animal.

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  78. Taven

    r 51 why why!

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  79. Evan

    Octopuses are so cool

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  80. Beckett

    i love Octopuses

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  81. Liam

    I like the part where Dr. John talked about how the octopus skin is like a bunch of pixels.

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  82. Madison

    I love it so much!

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  83. Stefan

    We have an octopus at our aquarium he’s so cool he likes to hide in corners

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  84. Evelyn

    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?

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  85. Faith

    I loved it! Listening from Georgia.

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  86. Eden

    Octopus are interesting creatures but it makes you wonder what kind of other creatures really do exist deep in the ocean

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  87. Jack

    The octopus is so cool

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  88. Shyann

    do the octopus spit out water to slide into any gap.

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  89. Joshua

    Wow ocean creatures are so interesting.

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  90. Tyler

    Never knew octoups were color blind

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  91. Christian

    I love learning about the ocean!

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  92. Stetson

    I never knew octopuses could be so interesting!

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  93. Gwen

    this was good

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  94. Jocie

    thats so cool

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  95. Sophia

    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.

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  96. Cooper

    I never knew Octopus had so many layers of skin. The way they camoflage is amazing!

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  97. Jacly

    The way the octopus camoflauged is so mesmerizing and cool to watch!

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  98. Connor

    Comment octopuses have unique tentacles

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  99. Pavi

    The octopus is pretty cool

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  100. Liam

    Octopuses have incredible abilities. How do they manage to squeeze through super small holes? 😮🐙🇦🇸

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  101. Grace

    Science Live is awesome!

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  102. Harmij

    They are my favorite sea animal! They are so unique and amazing!

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  103. Noah

    I personally thought talking about sea creatures was a unique choice that I approved of

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  104. Chris

    Amazing episode, I learned so much about octopuses.

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  105. Ruby

    He is so smart I love it

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  106. Carmelo

    I love this

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  107. Itzayana

    Octopus are so cool!

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  108. Jacly

    the Science fair sounds like a lot of fun!

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  109. Samuel

    Octopuses are weird in my opinion.

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  110. Martin

    Octopi are so fascinating and amazing

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  111. Brice

    Octopus are such incredible creatures.

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  112. Paulos

    I thought that how the octopus could go into a bottle the size as its beak was cool.56

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  113. Tagart

    Octopus are so cool I love them and this live!

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  114. Aruyel

    Wow I learned something new today! I never knew that octopuses have 3 hearts!

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  115. Ayden

    Another great vid!

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  116. Lena

    Octopus are cool

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  117. Kane

    Do octopus’s only live in salt water?

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  118. Andrea

    Octopus are so cool!

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  119. Christopher

    Always love learning about the ocean

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  120. Alexandra

    That was really cool! We should do more animals.

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  121. Adam

    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.

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  122. Gabriela

    What an interesting topic!

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  123. Lucas

    Pay attention R 51!

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  124. Brogen

    amazing video i learned so much it was very interesting.

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  125. Jayeden

    Wow! so cool!

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  126. Elaine

    Octopus are extremely intelligent animals. My aunt believes they are even more intelligent than the human race and have an underground world

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  127. Reuben

    Wow, they’re such amazing animals!

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  128. Ian

    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.

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  129. Brazos

    thanks for another cool video!

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  130. Nickolas

    octopus are so interesting and cool. And they have like sucker’s on the bottom of there tentickle too.

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  131. Shiah

    How do the arms ma,e decisions independently of the central brain?

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  132. Arianna

    can you do video about sharks they are cool to learn about

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  133. Hendrix

    9 brains, 3 hearts, octopus are so interesting and intelligent! Thank you Acellus, we love watching this program every week.

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  134. Deodar

    I like octopus!

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  135. Casey

    How does camouflage help the octopus?

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  136. Izabel

    danielle here your videos are amazing

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  137. Lila

    I didn’t know an octopus has 3 hearts!

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  138. Rosie

    I think it’s cool how a octopus has nine braines.

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  139. Adrianna

    There’s so many things I didn’t know about octopus! I do have a question though, where are the beaks of octopus located?

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  140. Aayden

    I like learning about Science and different topics.

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  141. Thomas

    Octopus are so unique

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  142. Samuel

    I love this

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  143. Alec

    Its so crazy how this is just one amazing creature out of the many that their are!.

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  144. Zachariah

    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.

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  145. Matthew

    i like the blue ring octopus

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  146. Azariah

    Love learning about octopus

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  147. Noah

    Learning about the octopus was cool. I really enjoyed this weeks science live. I can’t wait for the next one!

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  148. Sebastian

    The octopus is so cool!!! Learned a lot!

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  149. Arya

    R51 is so funny.

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  150. Lila

    My dad is going to the World Cup this year in Houston

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  151. Adem

    i like octopus

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  152. Kyndal

    it’s so cool how they camouflage

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  153. Mackenzie

    love this video

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  154. Kinley

    I loved this!

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  155. Quannah

    Science Live is the best.

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  156. Tiara

    I love learning about things in the ocean

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  157. Bruce

    I wonder if we will ever be able to make cloaking technology similar to the octopus?

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  158. Addison

    Octopus are really cool to learn about.

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  159. Ethan

    Wow! an octopus has 3 hearts? Thats cool!

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  160. Tucker

    i really think that this was a interesting video.

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  162. Abigayle

    Is the cyber school available in Jefferson County Ky?

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  163. Raelynn

    I like science live

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  164. Bailey

    Loved learning about Octopus. Octopus are such cool creatures.

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  165. Stevie

    Octopus have a lot of talents

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  166. Andrew

    Incredible abilities octopuses have.

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  167. Brynn

    Octopuses are so interesting!!

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  168. Brodie

    i love science live!!! its great!!!!!

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  169. Colton

    Octopus are really cool

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  170. Colton

    Octopus are so smart

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  171. Jasond

    great video

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  172. Jabin

    Octopus are super cool.

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  173. Brody

    Octopi are my favorite animal

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  174. Anthony

    Hello from TN

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  175. Charlotte

    The octopi are so cool but can we learn about jellyfish next time?

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