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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Wow what a beautiful creature!
Such interesting creatures!
Amazing video!
Loved learning about the octopuses
I think it’s cool that an octopus can squeeze though tiny openings to escape.
Love episode 308 I can not waut for 309
The color changing octopus was creepy but really cool!!!!!!
Awesome!
Yes! I have been wanting an animal episode. I love octopus and this is my favorite science live so far.
These videos are always so interesting to watch and learn from.
Science Live is so interesting, octopi can do so many awesome things!
I liked the segment with Dr. Tobias
loved this live! cant wait for the new one tonight!!
I have always thought octopi are aliens. Great episode!
This science live this week was awesome!
Octopus are such an amazing creaturesI’m so glad we’re We’re learning about them
Don’t know where I would be without Acellus and Dr. Roger Billings, they have allowed me to chase many many of my goals.
I love learning about the octopus!!
Cool to learn about the octopus, See you next time!
I’ve always found octopuses interesting due to they can squeeze through small holes and change color to match there environment.
I love this episode!!
Always excited to see what’s next. I really enjoy Mr. Roger and all he has done for us in my learning journey.
I’m all ready for summer so I will see you afterwards thank you again!!
I wonder what the topic will be next time.
I love science cideos *
Great video, thank you!
Loved it!
Great video!
I’m so glad to learn about jellyfish, I just hope I can actually see one at some point in my life. I’m still yet to see one. Thank you Dr. B!
love it cant wait for the next one
They are super smart its crazy
love learning facts about octopus, I hope there’s be one about jellyfish
I learned so much I love science
This was so fun to learn about wow!
Awsome video thx so much!
i love thesee
Wow! I wonder, how many legs does a jellyfish have?
So cool!
This was pretty cool
great video
I have always been intrigued by an Octopus. Amazing creatures! Thank you for your presentation. Robert “R.J” Still, 9th grade
Your in 9th grade!?
I like octopuses. they are cool .
Such amazing creatures.
I think that octopi don’t have skeletal structures, due to being able to fit in a glass of water. They are even more insane than an axolotl, which can regrow internal organs, like parts of its spinal column and parts of it’s brain!
One of my favorite animals !
I thought that octopus’ had 5 hearts? I love the name Aristotle for an octopus!
cool vid
more ocean stuff!
Science live is so cool!!!!!!
Thank you Acellus!
That’s cool scientists are putting dirt in batteries to make the environment cleaner
So cool!
do octopi like beans?
good video
Love marine life
The octopus looked funny
Will NASA ever make it to the moon?
I think they already have.
I love octopi they are unique in so many ways!
This was so cool!!!
Cant believe that the Octopus can camouflage so well!
My sister said that I’m as smart as an octopus, and octopuses actually also have nine brains, which is awesome, and their blood is blue as well!!
I loved learning with yall
Wow 3 hearts for an octopus? That is so cool to learn. Lots of heart beats haha!
I loved it ya’ll should do more sea video
I love science live so much!!!!
Hi from MT
Octopus are so cool!
Having the ability to hide as like a octopus would be cool
can octopus’ solve a Rubik’s cube?
Ophelia yes I don’t have a pet octopus but I’ve seen videos and I watch BBC a lot.
Octopus’s are really cool
Love this video
My favorite animal is an octopus
I enjoyed learning facts about octopus that I didn’t know about.
Did you know that octopus are from a different planet
The octupus is amazing.
I love octopus, such a smart animal.
who knew, octopuses where so cool!? they squeeze through tiny space!! and change colors,
Keep up the good work!
:3
Acellus is great!!
I love octopus’s!
So much fun
I love science live so much!!!!😆😆😆
interesting video. Hope to see more
I learned new things
I can’t believe octopuses can get through such tiny holes compared to their body size!
I love learning about science!
Loved learning about the Octopus this week! Such amazing creatures.
Watching from Ohio.
What kind of octopus was in the first video and where was the video taken?
This is awesome!
Awesome video
I’m so impressed with how the octopus can memorize people’s faces and that they have a hidden beak! It’s crazy how they can fit through a hole the size of a quarter!
The anatomy of the octopus was really cool!
very interesting video this week
The octopus is shuch an amazing creature.
The Octopus is honestly my favorite animal, the camouflage is cool, their incredibly smart and can even squeeze through spots that should be impossible for them to get to.
I love science live.
hello from North Dakota!
I love Octopi! They’re so magical.
Every time I learn something new about the octopus it make me love them more!
Such a great lesson!
I wish I could have an octopus as a pet.
When was the octopus first discovered?
Octopus have many brains so they must be smart.
I love Octopuses so this ep was a real treat^^
I love Octopus they are so cool! <3
Wow 3 hearts that’s so cool.
I can’t wait to see the science fair project.
I love that they can camouflage themselves to any of their surroundings.
Thank you for this awesome episode of science live.
Octopus are really cool animals. I wonder how they control all 8 of the tentacles at the same time.
Octopus are really flexible?!
That is cool!
I never knew that they could do these kinds of things. Thanks so much for the information Dr. Billings!
We all love you and this activity!
Will the Conspiracy Theory class count towards graduation as an elective? Also, all the information that was given on the octopus was so interesting. Pretty amazing how they can blend and adapt the way they do. They are Amazing creatures.
i loved learning about octupi! i always found them to be so ineteresting, and relatively funny about how some scientists claim that the octupus was the cloest thing we had to alien life! to me that shows how different they are in the scale from animals and mammals closer to our own biology! something new i did learn about them in this science live was that they have 9 brains! i was aware that they had multiple hearts but the comment on their brains was news to me! Can’t wait to be here for the next science live!
Loved this! The octopus plush was so cute
hello mikaela coming from ct
Great, live.
I love Acellus!!
Great live
As a kid who wants to grow up to become a biologist, could their be more science live’s based on biological sciences?
octopus are really cool.
Awesome video, that’s cool!
I love learning more about octopuses! They’re very neat and smart creatures.
octopus have so much talents that i did not no about im so blown away amazing video
I love it so much it helps me understand sience in ways I didn’t understand
I love science live! One of my favorite videos!
I wish we learned more about ocean creatures.
I didn’t know octopuses are colorblind.
Very interesting things about the octopus!
great fact about octopus
Octopus are over 3 billion years old. I never knew they were that old.
It’s so cool that an octopus can remember people!
I want more science live its cool!
this is so cool, i love ocean creatures!
Natural camouflage is so cool!
My Octopus teacher was such a great movie
I did not know octopus were color blind
Will science live still happen on wednesday during the week of Acellus world or will it just be the event on friday?
Octopus are so cool. I think they are so amazing fitting their big body in tiny places.
It’s so cool that an octopus can remember people!
Nice science live, enjoyed it
I loved this episode it has so much interesting things!!
I love learning about animals! It is my favorite and the octopus is so cool!
I Like science live
Octopus are so cool
I love learning about animals! It is my favorite and the octopus is so cool!
thank you for teching me mor about faveret anemal.
Octupus are truly a wonder now that I have seen this.
Wow thank you so much, I never knew this much about octopuses especially about the 9 brains it has which is pretty cool, my favorite part is that one type of octopus that can mimic animals, every thing else was amazing thanks for sharing.
Wow this episode was so cool! I loved hearing about the octopus!
Octopuses are aliens on Earth.
what did the octopus say on Valentine’s day? I want to hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug you
The octopus is a very unique ocean creature.
I loved this science live.
Octopus are the smartest.
Great vídeo. I didn’t know octopuses had 3 hearts!
Octopus are so interesting, and wow, many cool talents.
It’s almost as if octopuses were aliens
This was so interesting
Octopus are so cool
octopuses are so unique, Loved the video
That’s so crazy, octopuses can do that, it’s almost like they’re aliens!
I loved this episode! It was awesome to learn about octopuses
I love hearing things about under water animals!
Octopus are fascinating creatures.
Octopus are smart!
Octopus has 3 hearts wow!
This was an amazing episode again, thank you!
ocean creatures are so interesting
octopus have blue blood!
This was a very fun science live! it was very interesting to learn about octopi.
I have a question about this episode why are we talking about the miraculous octopus 🐙
i love ocean animals so much!
Did you know that octopus blood is blue because it has copper in it?
Octopus are amazing creatures… 9 brains, 3 hearts! We would love to learn more about sea creatures. Thank you Acellus.
I really loved this weeks live about the octopus, and I loved learning about the way octopus’s function and how they work, it was really cool, I would have never guessed that octopus have three hearts and eight brains and that the have blue blood. I really enjoyed this weeks live and hope we have more lives like these.
Octopus have a lot of cool thing i didn’t know about them
I learned something new, I didn’t know an octopus has three hearts.
This is a favorite for me, I love the ocean and would love to see more science live like this!
More segmenst with aquatic life in them would be really cool
If octopi have a brain for each tentacle how do they work with each other?
I love science live!
So the octopus change their color through a process like echolocation?
That’s so interesting!
It’s nice to learn more about octopuses
This episode was very interesting.
I have always been fond of ocean animals and them in general! It would be great if we could learn some more about different types of marine animals.
What is the smallest type of octopus?