The Most Incredible Octopus You’ve Never Heard of: The Blanket Octopus

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Okay, so they rip off a Man O' War's tentacles and use it as toxic whips... This is the Kratos under the sea.

[@JcoleMc]

Just gonna leave my comment here beford this blows up.

[@vinces7001]

Just Some Guy without a Mustache. Had an Ex GF like that! Pulled the pin and the handle sprung away ~ Countdown started¥ Grins

[@Gamerkat10]

Only the ladies though. The males are refined down to a male's true purpose- sperm delivery.

[@vinces7001]

Kat McCloud. Actually Smiles! That's not very PC In Fact it's bordering on Sexist¥ GRINS Xxx

[@Babarudra]

then they rip off their "sex arm". They've got issues.

[@WSCP]

Female blanket octopus: dons capes and wields poisonous whips. Male blanket octopus: a sex walnut.

[@grenzviel4480]

Stay alive or get laid....

[@papastalin69]

He smol

[@ezekielmartin4323]

@Zecurix Helion Nice reference lol

[@genericembarrassingusernam7843]

@@grenzviel4480 that is how a whole bunch of animals do, apparently.

[@3rdmonocle789]

Male Anglerfish: First time?

[@fartzinwind]

Someone please inform ZFrank about this. There must be a True Facts about an animal that steels the limbs off another species to be used in self defense. That's metal AF

[@richardbidinger2577]

OMG, YES.

[@Rubrickety]

I do know that Ze and Hank have chatted. I believe they were planning a collab for Ze's channel, but I suspect Mr. 19 has disrupted that.

[@siyacer]

Sounds like another day in the life

[@katiekane5247]

I can't pass from this realm until I hear Zefrank do this!

[@seanwaddell2659]

To understand this, imagine mad max where you wear the body parts of your defeated foes and use them as defenses. That is how the blanket octopus do.

[@grimble4564]

I love how we're so unimaginative that we've only come up with like 3 movie aliens that actually look alien, and meanwhile the ocean has been out here just doing its thing for a few billion years

[@Sim_Pole]

Nope does a great monster inspired from this creature

[@drmantistobboggangonzodr3961]

Exactly, like cuttlefish or mantis shrimp or bobbit worms (also known as "sand strikers"), even some sea cucumbers and orfish and anemones... or take a look at the insect world, which has tons of "alien"-looking creatures like mantises and jewel wasps and so much more. Not to mention that there are "zombie fungi" like cordyceps that infect ants and so much more fascinating stuff! Then you have some viruses and microscopic critters like tardygrades, etc. that also look quite not-of-this-world.

[@KaylaLoveHeart]

A predator trying to eat a blanket octopus: "Any last words?" The blanket octopus: "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag"

[@chrismoles861]

This needs more attention. Nicely done

[@abclop99]

Deepstaria: "Yes"

[@LimeyLassen]

Octopi are so amazing. It's like, they couldn't decide if they wanted to be primitive or advanced, so they just did both.

[@pay1370]

"Look at my amazing nervous system, i'm super smart for an invertebrate. Also here's my sex arm, now i will die."

[@DoctorProph3t]

I’ve heard too many horror stories of octopus being raptor-intelligent and hiding in the strangest places. They know.

[@MrAdryan1603]

*Octopuses

[@PrettyPatrick]

@@MrAdryan1603 lol it's both words

[@jkmarblejk7445]

Fun fact octopuses is the correct way of saying it.

[@markchapman6800]

"A young female blanket octopus will swim up to a man o' war..." What I expect the next part to be: "and hide among its tentacles"... "rip off its tentacles, and then carry them around using her suckers... she can wield them like toxic whips!" That escalated quickly!

[@LadyEsori]

😂 word for word what I expected, not at all what I got 🤣

[@oracleofdelphi4533]

I don't get to say this everyday, but that's an incredible octopus.

[@Trund27]

Oracle Of Delphi Isn’t though?!?

[@ttk519]

Octopussy* (y mute)

[@LeoStaley]

I want to be friends with the sort of person that *can* say that every day.

[@annakeye]

*+Oracle Of Delphi* The entire order _octopoda_ is pretty damned incredible. Mimic octopus are insanely weird. Though this blanket octopus is certainly up there. Then there's the dinky and venomous blue ringed octopus. I could go on for hours. Fascinating creatures.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

you could totally say that every day! You should!

[@emilynightingale7758]

caudal autotomy is when a lizard drops it's tail if anyone's wondering.

[@omnitoad2187]

Whoa. I love Octopods, but that's weird by even weird standards. Show's like Star Trek really don't have enough diversity in their aliens. When stuff like this lives on our planet, imagine just how freaky things from entirely other chemical origins would be.

[@ThatSilverDude]

HONESTLY

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Don't get your hopes up.Universal abundance of elements,chemistry and convergent evolution will ruin your day.

[@siyacer]

Crystalline butterflies happen.

[@SolarScion]

Star Trek has some non-humanoid and really far fetched life-forms, but, for the most part, they were really limited by budget and the stories they wanted to tell. That's why there was such an abundance of 'forehead aliens' and instances of "alien species" that were just one ethnicity of humans. There were some giant "spacefaring trilobytes", non-coporeal beings, and the mutually beneficial parasitism of the Trill and their symbionts. Also, *shows.

[@cortster12]

I don't know a show that does have diversity in aliens, honestly. And I have given up hoping for it.

[@YoshimieYutaka]

Who cares about Aliens. The ocean is pretty alien to me.

[@siwonchang3818]

i mean, isn’t more of space explored than the actual ocean

[@sleverlight]

I think both exploration are important.

[@sleverlight]

@@siwonchang3818 I heard that too, but it doesn't quite make sense to me.

[@김복주-c4f]

Ocean is not an alien -alien: ... ocean: sgvdhahvdu

[@ducktwacy9051]

Space aliens? Illegal aliens?

[@Thee_Sinner]

Nothin sexier than the phrase "calcified mouth parts"

[@Paddy656]

You have those too.

[@juniperburton7693]

@@Paddy656 we do indeed

[@amaccoy]

2:17 imagine that conversation on the research boat. "Joe how did swim into a man-o-war?!" "I DIDN'T! THE OCTOPUS SLAPPED ME WITH IT!!"

[@KLFD530]

Blanket octopus holding a man o war jellyfish: say hello to my little friend!

[@wijo6234]

I am blanket octopus... And THIS is my weapon

[@phuayizhong7890]

Will Jones is that a doctor who reference?

[@wijo6234]

@@phuayizhong7890 no it's tf2's "meet the heavy" short

[@smiller2044]

😄

[@Megallean]

Holy crap! I saw this creature briefly mentioned in a documentary or show many many years ago. I had forgotten all about it except for how it vaguely looked and that haunted me for a long time. This video has answered a personal mystery. Thank you.

[@eisernfront8549]

"For males, it's not the size that matters but its speed."

[@fatmansbox]

Female octo just floating about. *hears DEJA VU in the distance*

[@juniormynos9457]

Now I can use science to justify my smaller than average man parts and faster than average orgasms

[@nerovanguard846]

The truth has been spoken

[@messyties]

Wow, ego-boost!

[@blackemschmackem5217]

Tell that to my girlfriend

[@berryberrykixx]

"Imagine your spouse is the size of a walnut." Instant divorce.

[@Mysterios1989]

the question is, would you keep the sex-arm?

[@jasonwebb1882]

@@Mysterios1989 lmao. I want to say something but I'm scared that a kid might read it. So I'll just say this instead. It does have a mind of its own!!! I told my wife that and she didn't believe me.

[@Mark-zu6oz]

Deleted lyrics from John Lennon's song.

[@Gamerkat10]

Well, he'll be dead, so you won't have to.

[@TheRogueWolf]

Does he get half, or is it pro-rated by size?

[@iloveamerica1966]

"Don't eat me, I'm a plastic bag."

[@craigcorson3036]

You misspelled Republicans.

[@iloveamerica1966]

@@craigcorson3036 grow up and start thinking.

[@craigcorson3036]

@@iloveamerica1966 I have been thinking for the last sixty-nine years. I dare say I'm MUCH better at it than you can even dream of being. Numerous independent sources would back me up. If you were only half as good at it as I am, you would be able to discern the simple fact that Donald John Trump and the Republican Party are taking you and this entire nation for a ride, straight down the road to perdition. You need to WAKE UP. You're being USED.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

@@craigcorson3036 hol' up you mean it should be "Don't eat me, I'm a Republican"?

[@pavannoolvi4274]

Chinese:hey I haven't tried this.

[@jimni999]

"Male octopus has to rip off its own arm then dies"? I'll never complain again when my wife ask me to take out the garbage.

[@gwarscout1825]

And I'm pissed from only having a grocery store for a night on the town.

[@koreyleigh2733]

MY

[@smurfyday]

Don't get what these men think complaining. You don't have to marry.

[@Maric18]

@@smurfyday its a fun tradition to complain about being married its like friends "roasting" each other, a form of mock negative social interaction you could also call it a humble brag about being married?

[@nerovanguard846]

3:35 "It's not the size that matters, it's speed"

[@David_T]

Well, I guess I've got that covered...

[@cgaccount3669]

True for humans too 😁

[@AntiReligionistz]

i was going so fast but she say she felt nothing

[@Omprakash-fd2pc]

Ok ok i understand why my granny used to say " This world is very weird and don't think everything happens normally"

[@lunacouer]

Gratitude List: *Coffee *My cozy blanket *I am not a blanket octopus during mating season Now excuse me, I need to go curl up in my cozy blanket and drink coffee so I don't fall asleep with that nightmare fuel in my brain.

[@infinitecanadian]

Males in so many species are only worth their sperm.

[@siyacer]

@@infinitecanadian some males are literally just sperm cells in some species

[@instanttregret]

I’m already Sans Undertale please elaborate. I’ll lose my sleep over this

[@papastalin69]

Tasty bean juice

[@infinitecanadian]

@@siyacer For social insects all they exist for is reproduction. In some species of fish the male is more like a parasite and just hangs on to the female.

[@shelleynobleart]

Loved learning this. And yet again another excellent presenter. I felt he was telling me the info rather than reading something.

[@annaliseoconner9266]

This was absolutely, amazingly strange. Loved it so much. Thank you, SciShow, for continuing to bring us wonderful, wild new knowledge! And thank you, Matthew Brant!

[@NGC-nx7nl]

1:40 They in fact can shed off part of their blanket in defense. There is footage here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIjNf4CFaqd9gZI

[@scaper8]

I could see this as being more of a shedding or molting action than as throwing it off in a defensive act, but it does look to be pretty conclusive evidence of it happening under some kind of circumstance or another.

[@FHM1994]

The sheer variety of nature is truly beautiful.

[@Zackfish12345]

What a bizarre organism! I love how the process of evolution just works with whatever is good enough and goes with it so we end up with stuff like the blanket octopus

[@dans6127]

Well that got awkward quickly

[@microbuilder]

I really hope the Rule 34 people never see this video...

[@iloveamerica1966]

Octopus KZbin: Title: Strangest Animal on Earth "...now, you'll rarely see a hooman, because they can only _walk_ on their legs. Not only are their beaks made of calcium, but they have calcium sticks in their arms and legs, which means they sink in water. This unfortunate adaptation makes them scared of the ocean. To get in the ocean, they actually adorn themselves with plastic bags like our relatives the crabs, and they can remove their capelike bags, too. Hoomans have the strangest mating ritual... During copulation not only do they put their calcified arm in, but it comes back out! Worse, they don't die after they mate; they live on and they have to repeat the disgusting process over and over and over until they get it right."

[@Beetlemigrations]

I love how adorable and colorful octopuses are. This was such a cool video, thanks for keeping us informed during such a chaotic time!

[@iloveamerica1966]

Octopus KZbin: Title: Strangest Animal on Earth "...now, you'll rarely see a hooman, because they can only _walk_ on their legs. Not only are their beaks made of calcium, but they have calcium sticks in their arms and legs, which means they sink in water. This unfortunate adaptation makes them scared of the ocean. To get in the ocean, they actually adorn themselves with plastic bags like our relatives the blanket octopus, and they can remove their capelike bags, too. Hoomans have the strangest mating ritual... During copulation not only do they put their calcified arm in, but it comes back out! Worse, they don't die after they mate; they live on and they have to repeat the disgusting process over and over and over until they get it right."

[@ernestvanophuizen461]

If your mating arm is calcified, it's time to speak to your doctor.

[@bethanyday3471]

yo, i am dead now. ty.

[@camilohiche4475]

Why this isn't the top comment is beyond me.

[@deinonychusben]

A life without sex, or a gruesome death? Tough call.

[@iloveamerica1966]

@@camilohiche4475 no doubt it's the user name.

[@cycled9073]

The title isn’t wrong, until 15 minutes ago when Florida man somewhere near 30 ranted about octopuses for some reason

[@SovetskyGoose]

Recommended: do not use as blanket

[@Trund27]

Annabeth Spenla Haha!!! Good advice XD

[@BlueLikeAnIKEABag]

Blanket octopus sex ed has got to be eerily similar to the human version: „Sex means death so only do it once you‘re old and longing for it anyway“

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

This was an excellent episode. It had many more visuals and examples, and it made it much more watchable. Usually when I watch scishow I treat it like a podcast and multitask. Watched this one straight through.

[@ChoralAlchemist]

Watched this with my husband. At 2:50 we looked at each other and both immediately did this 👌🏼 and laughed. :)

[@juniormynos9457]

Octopuses are my favourite animals because they so unique and intelligent. Great to learn about this new species👍🏿

[@karenl6908]

That... That octopus is THE Underwater Superhero!!! She is...TREMOCTOPUS!

[@johnnydarling8021]

Male Octopuses: “Honey. Nut. Cheerio.”

[@jackkraken3888]

Well that escalated quickly.

[@TheRogueWolf]

"The males are one-one hundredth the length of their mates." Gal Gadot: "I can relate."

[@SirFancyPantsMcee]

Angler males are also tiny, and fuse to the female.

[@christianheichel]

They're actually considered parasites

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Now I see Girls und Panzer in a new light.

[@SirFancyPantsMcee]

@@christianheichel I didnt know

[@joshuahadams]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6WadmeXorx3p6s

[@doubletrouble6480]

Finally a video about this octopus

[@Bofore13]

Beautiful cephalopods.

[@TheCommonCore]

“Imagine if your mate were as small as a walnut” Me: *has Bee Movie flashbacks*

[@katkarrier]

Octopus are my favorite animals and I didn't know about these guys! Thanks!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I think Squidward deserves this upgrade

[@samtheskeleton7386]

Hugbees

[@riverbender9898]

Fascinating! Thank You.

[@mgsquared5204]

*It sounds like they made up their name* “What’s your name?” “Octopus” “Your last name” “Octopus... tremoctopus?”

[@RachelFranzen-vt9zc]

So pretty. This is why i love the ocean

[@Arthiem]

"the males are 40,000x smaller than the females, there has never been a bigger size diffrence between mates outside of microscopic levels" that how 5'2" girl feels about a guy who is only 5'8"

[@xthatghomiex2939]

My girlfriend is 5'0" and I'm 5'11". Hugs from short people are amazing.

[@vernalviolante]

This was one of my all-time favorite videos from this channel👍🏼

[@trulsvian]

I can relate to these octopus males.

[@clairufo]

Truls Vian which part? A. That they’re only used for sex, or B. that they are a size of a walnut or C. they can rip off their sex arm?

[@sdfkjgh]

@@clairufo: "I Can Rip Off My Sex Arm" sounds like the title of a grindcore song.

[@davidprodigy5833]

Beautiful and mesmerizing

[@clairufo]

“Spouse were the size of a walnut “ 😂

[@shenhavch2563]

Nature is so awesome...

[@EverythingScience]

How do you make an octopus laugh? You give it ten-tickles.

[@amazo1622]

That’s the thing from LIFE. ITS HERE AGH!!

[@Lambda_Ovine]

Two blanket octopuses meet, they are Lindsey and Holley "Hello bestie, how are you?" "I'm good, how you doing yourself?" "I'm doing great!" "Did you bring your husband?" "Yeah! I have him on my pocket" "Nice! I carry mine on my key chain" "That's so cute!" From the pocket, "Hey dude" From the key chain, "Sup" Fin

[@akumaking1]

Make this a Pokemon!

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

There's not enough cephalopod pokémon and that's a fact

[@ImaStarboy252]

maybe they have a certain scent to follow for mating, or maybe frequency, or maybe food source, but maybe they follow certain temperature zones and hang around certain temperatures when they are in the mood to mate

[@dittocopys]

blanktopus

[@copacetic6440]

okay I'm officially scared and impressed. This is actually a new feeling thank you scishow.💗😷

[@amazingscience6632]

Beautiful beyond words. 😍

[@LtsTalkAboutit]

Short men in the octopus community just out here flourishing. 😎

[@sumguy52]

"Toxic Whips!" Amazing😂

[@Newmaxnet]

Greetings from South Africa 🔥💕

[@ethandarkheart2628]

Hello from WesternCape

[@CuanL]

Howzit from Gardens, CT 😊

[@CJ_McK]

aweh aweh :P

[@Trund27]

H z Hello from Canada! Stay safe!!!

[@richardayala2709]

I really like that these videos are short compared to most videos on youtube now

[@hopegallows1392]

Does using the Man o War tentacles count as tool use? I feel like it should

[@psalm91rdwlkfpgrl]

agreed

[@Wateringman]

Looking for tools, fashioning tools, and using them is proof of immense intelligence. That is tactical planning.

[@lordk.gaimiz6881]

2:48 that's also a fetish.

[@julielabelle2783]

Great video, thank you for sharing this with us.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Next up: the Snuggie octopus.

[@lucienpetersen9010]

Thank you Matthew Brant!

[@timeshark8727]

I've known about these for quite a while... although I did study marine biology in college.

[@Trund27]

Nice!It must of been super interesting. Love marine life. Just “adopted” a Vaquita porpoise - those poor things are so endangered, we might lose them...

[@jettosmith1589]

I remember the good ol'days when we used to think it was octopi instead of octopuses

[@annakeye]

Just when I think there's not much more to know, I find out we have a female super hero out in the ocean, wielding toxic whips from one of the stingiest creatures in the ocean. I'm still trying to figure out how her dimunitive lovers find her. Man, I love octopuses. They're crazy cool.

[@Alurkerdood]

I still think that the vampire squid has the most metal scientific name.

[@TheFuturistTom]

Dear SciShow! I am glad to have stumbled upon your channel several years ago, you have inspired me to make my own channel: The Futurist Tom and my second video, "Why There May Be a VR Exodus"

[@axeon466]

The concept seems so interesting!

[@Stefan-ht3tv]

Amazing! Absolutely.

[@dlee645]

I’m glad he is using the correct plural word for octopus.

[@camilohiche4475]

Octopussies?

[@geonite2072]

Blanket octopus, huh? Betcha they never get cold.😆

[@MierRocio]

1:31 why does that look like a humans silhouette???!!!

[@shahan484]

This whole video and the creature is a weird fever dream i never want to have again

[@EggBastion]

Pretty bold of you to assume none of us are watching DeepseaOddities.

[@almed23]

Blanket 🐙: *laughs in Man o' war

[@EXG21]

If you say “octopuses,” someone in the room might correct you to octopi. Am I the only one who thought about this as soon as he said octopuses?

[@watsonwrote]

Octopuses is technically correct because it comes from Greek and that's how the Greek plural is formed. Adding i to the end is a Latin form of pluralizing

[@EXG21]

@@watsonwrote Thank you yet I already knew. It's just stuck with me because I was young and learning while it was still octopi but I understand why. Lol.

[@ProfessorLooney95]

Just a shoutout to all the patrons from a scishow fan too poor to be a patreon. Thanks for doing what many of us can't you guys and girls are the real MVPs

[@Dr-UnBox]

“Who else been a fan of SciShow before 2020?“ (I hope you are doing well!)

[@Munax.]

Who cares?

[@DuelingBongos]

I saw one of these in the Disney Nature film about oceans. I had no idea what I was looking at. Now I know. Thank you!

[@noelhutchins7366]

I love this focus of species specific video: I became aware of a flasher squid, large and pretty; worthy of a short vid.

[@cade8986]

He said “octopuses” so many times... you can tell he’s baiting comments of people saying “*octopi”

[@gilernt]

i scrolled down as soon as he said it just to look for people that fell for it

[@predictivetextisforaunts]

Well in all fairness he was describing octopuses. How else could he talk about them?

[@ramon7741]

When a greek work or a word of any other origin gets adapted into English, it gets treated as an English word. So Octopuses is right, not Octopi. There's a video supporting this in this channel, or in PBS eons, or in any other PBS channels.

[@JamesM1994]

@@ramon7741 The right way to pluralize octopus is whatever way people agree on.

[@ramon7741]

@@JamesM1994 which is sometimes invalid

[@eyeln9ne696]

YES. I love octopuses.

[@jakeroberts8471]

Nobody: Seriously, nobody: Sci Show: OCTOPUS SEX ARMS

[@RichBensen]

For a video about a species that you admit we still have much to learn about, this one sure makes a lot of blanket statements.

[@Fizks]

10 dislikes?!? People are soooo weird.

[@pamelagewirtz4078]

Loved this!

[@simonpeter5032]

"Octopusses" I thought you pretend nerds were supposed to be smart. We all know the plural for Octopus is Octopussy.

[@cadendignard-campbell4578]

Finally these guys get the spotlight! 😩

[@ThatSilverDude]

And some octopuses get eaten and tortured alive on youtube for money.

[@kigozimuhammad]

who the hell does that?? i hate this internet crave for clout

[@predictivetextisforaunts]

kigozi muhammad Actually live octopus is a delicacy in some countries.

[@ThatSilverDude]

@@kigozimuhammad the channel SsoYoung

[@ThatSilverDude]

@@predictivetextisforaunts delicacy or not. Filming yourself torturing and eating a live animal shouldnt be allowed on KZbin. Idk why seafood gets this pass. You dont see people torturing squirrels or frogs on youtube and eating them, why is seafood okay? And why is it MONETIZED???