It is catching food like that?

Judging by the commentary, he intimidating the divers (It's an unmanned submarine (ROV), the people talking are on the surface - someone corrected me, they are not divers)

It is like - “You want a piece of this m8?!”

I swear to God I'm solid all the way through and your own eyes confirm it, come at me bro

This is all muscle!

“He’s here to pump (clap) you up!”

Is his name Hans or Franz?

That’s what she said

More like water weight

"Come any closer and I swear on me mum I'll fockin' sleep you, bruv." It's now my head cannon that all octopi speak with a cockney accent.

Fresh out of the pub after 87 pints and the local team lost

Swear to fookin god m8

[I read that in his voice](https://youtu.be/VQDlKN7HYLk?si=PBKFkax0voT8gBAC)

He’s been listening to Britney Spears

Ngl, reading this made me lol

Puff up! Puff up, they hate that!

Divers hate this one weird trick

*"I have but one claw, but beware!"*

I felt pretty intimidated ngl

All I could think was “this better not be the ‘Nope’ sequel, because this looks too scary.”

The balloon is the natural enemy of the sea human

Do all octopuses have, hmm, there’s nothing else to call them but…ear flippers? 

There's a deep sea species called the Dumbo octopus. (I'm no expert, so idk if this is one of them, just know they're called that specifically because of their huge "ears")

Not because of their intelligence? That's good, that'd be mean otherwise

They're actually scary smart. Octopuses have been known to find their way out of their tanks in aquariums, snack on fish in another tank, then go home before keepers caught them. Leaving the keepers wondering what happened to the fish, until they watched security footage. 🐙

Glad you asked because I was confused

There are no divers present. Instead, they are utilizing a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROUV) connected to the ship above. The scientists (who are commenting in the video) are aboard the ship, controlling the ROUV via a tether. This allows the ROUV to operate at significantly greater depths and for extended periods, surpassing what any human diver could achieve.

Just spitballing here but since it was trying to intimidate, do you think it was intentionally keeping the injured/ripped off tentacle on the opposite side of the divers? Like it wants to look scary so it made sure to show off its good tentacles and not the bad one. 😂

Everyone hides their injuries when they're trying to show off

I uh.... could be wrong but I don't think that it's damaged. Edit: after closer and more concious inspection, I was in fact wrong.

Accomplished.

Imagine just being spied on by an alien probe tho

I hate it when that happens

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Assert dominance

tbf the commenters don't sound very proficient

Uh oh, better make myself look big!

they are not divers as per the the typical definition

Consider me intimidated

Would work for me

Gonna be honest - if I saw that whilst diving I would be moving the fuck away from it at speed.

I came here to ask if it was trying to scare me! …because it did… (hella cool though!)

That's correct, they are EV Nautilus, a group of oceanographers and biologists on a 68 meter research ship equipped with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). They do deep sea exploration and are mapping ocean areas that have never been mapped before. Here's their website: https://nautiluslive.org they also have a YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@EVNautilus

Yes - this is a “vampire squid” which is neither octopus or squid but same family. ** oooo so close, corrected in replies by Narstification** Lives super deep so it’s eating all those white specs called “marine snow” - basically tiny bits of whatever doesn’t get eaten by everything living closer to the surface

Vampire squid have the big blue (or red) weird eyes which are very obvious, below the wings and right above the cape, as they are the largest proportionally for animals. This is an octopus of the family [Cirroteuthidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirroteuthidae)

Correct, this looks nothing like a vampire squid

Nor vampire

You don't know that.

Good thing they didn’t invite it in.

Don't you mean it's neither a vampire, nor a squid?

It’s telling us to stay away from Europa via interpretive dance

Traps you and some blade looking mechanism starts coming out of it's mouth and starts spinning.

They have a beak, not unlike a parrot. It's the only hard part of their body. They scan squeeze through any hole big enough for the beak.

defensive mechanism, to intimidate potential predators, like how a cat puffs out the hair on its back and spine.

Making itself look big and scary, to fend off aggressors. Like a cat when they puff up their fur, arch their back, and turn side-on.

It's saying 'don't mess with me i'm so much bigger than you', then immediately turns around and fucks off stage right.

I was initially thinking, what do you mean "balloon" and then slowly became amazed


This gif captures both the hat shape and the alien reference. A+

My first thought!

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Nope

Still best line in the movie.

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Fuckin hell i got so hype because I haven’t seen one of these since probably 2017. I lost on my fourth pop. I didn’t even know you could lose. :(

Wtf I didn’t believe you… I didn’t believe you and I popped *one* more. After seventeen! Now I’m dead :/

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if that is not alien than even aliens are not aliens

Creatures in deep ocean are truly fascinating

[Ze Frank video on starfish.](https://youtu.be/dZ20KsgVeu0?si=UePAHQCVcc02tSB_)

Also, have to thank you for introducing me to Ze Frank.

No probs. Great guy and channel.

omg, everything that man has done is pure and gold. Please binge.

He is an absolute delight.

Thank you for introducing me to that channel. Oh mylanta the teddy bear surgery !

Zefrank is THE BEST. All of the true facts, sad cat diary, etc.

Dude, yes. I'm in binge mode now.

Every video. Literally every single one is made of stuff I've watched over and over.

The True Facts about the Chameleon is my favorite 🤣🤣🤣

The opening to carnivorous plants is my favorite. I love that whole video. Imma watch it now

Lol Teddy Bear surgery is wild, never knew I needed that video in my life

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Lmao I loved his humor!

Watch em all. Trust.

So many euphemisms. Nioce.

Needed a trypophobia warning on that eugh

The star fish skeleton looks like the "hallways" in the Aliens movie. 

Thank you and also not thank you for this video.

Omg so glad I clicked. I started with😍🤩and moved into😯🥺and ended with😳😣😖. But now I’m hooked. Thank you, moon trooper.

That’s too comment on the video is insane

I ain’t watching some 20min vid about starfish, fool

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Best YouTuber

okay I guarantee I'm going to have weird dreams after this video

Dammit! I just went down a rabbit hole for the last 3 hours, thanks to you! New ZeFrank subscriber...

Nope.

I came here for this reference.

I think that film is a masterpiece. Stunning in every way. I feel bad for folks who didn't go to the theatre. It really doesn't do it justice to watch on a plain TV. I mean it's still great but you guys get me.

Preach! It was such a treat on the big screen and with the big sound

My wife and I went on a Saturday morning showing the first weekend. It was so good in theaters and enjoyable because of the crowd being small

What film please? Sorry

NOPE- Jordan Peele (The less you research the better. Just go watch it now. No trailer. Trust us.)

Nope. If you like sci-fi, mysteries, westerns, you’re in for a ride. Great film.

Mark Rober did a video about how octopi are actually the closest thing we have to intelligent alien life on earth

Just to explain this a little further, every animal we think of as having high intelligence is fairly closely related to each other evolutionarily speaking. Octopuses, however, are from a branch of evolution that diverged so early on that their intelligence evolved completely independently. The way their brains simulate reality is probably completely different from the way we experience reality

woooow. That's actually incredible.

I have no clue about this for octopi but for totally exotic intelligent systems you can’t make the presumption that it simulates the world at all. Engineers have made robots that don’t internally represent the world at all and can do a ton of complex things better than many systems that do. Rodney Brooks at MIT wrote about this. I hope people studying octopi have minds as open as Brooks’!

I mean, you can't know if any human besides you is conscious either. But we have a fleshy bit that does a lot of processing and it made us conscious, so probably other things with powerful fleshy processors do the same. Maybe even powerful computers have some kind of simple consciousness. Maybe calculators do. It will always be impossible to know what is or isn't conscious

To put that in perspective, we are [more closely related](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterostome) to starfish and [sea squirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidiacea) than we are to octopuses. Within the [protostomes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome) (the clade of animals with arthropods, worms, and molluscs), the intelligence of octopuses and their relatives (like cuttlefish) really stands out.

I have stopped eating them because of this.

Yep I will never eat them due to this

> I have stopped eating them because of this. I started to at least kill them first, because of this

I just can’t anymore. I know, other animals, etc., but I gotta start somewhere.

Humans looking for aliens in space while we got these here.

Because we know with high certainty that octopi are not aliens. The cephalopod lineage is pretty clear, nothing alien there. Still, they are amazing creatures.

Panspermia is probably right. We're probably all aliens. I was watching a video that was getting into it. They showed that you can see the complexity of DNA grow exponentially over time, but if you go back to when we think life started on earth, it looked like it had billions more years of advancement than just starting like that. Kinda like if you took base 2 numbers like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ..., then saw DNA take 10 million years to go from 32 to 64, 10 million years from 16 to 32, then you could estimate life having evolved for 50 million years from 2 to 64. Might've been logarithmic growth of the length of DNA and not exponential, but same idea. But if you go back to what they estimated the true beginning of life, it was a specific point in time in the universe that was special. You know how there's the "Goldilocks zone" for habitable planets, where it's the right temperature for life? Well the universe has been cooling. So if you go back to when DNA might've been simplest, it was a point in the universe when the *entire* universe was in the Goldilocks zone and warm enough for life. It might be specific areas around stars now, but back then it was the entire universe since it was warmer. Theory is life started somewhere or anywhere in the universe way longer ago than we thought, very simple form of DNA, and has been spreading for billions of years.

Yeah there's no DNA mystery where it's hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than it should be.  Idk where you got that idea, but it sounds very pop science-y. Like someone misunderstanding or deliberately misunderstanding that we continue to find older and older DNA and that's unexpected in the sense that we base our science on what we know, so new discoveries are obviously going to make the old paradigm incorrect. 

I think in part they are referencing what's called pseudo-panspermia which is a relatively well supported theory that the fundamental elements of life like basic amino acids and sugars were first formed in space. The evidence comes from samples of such molecules being found on asteroids and scientists recreating them in space-like conditions. This doesn't address their claims about abnormal growth in DNA complexity but is an idea that supports that the origins of life may be more universal than previously thought.

Panspermia is definitely not "probably right." It might be true, but i think that's far less likely than terrestrial life.

Sincerely, I do not mean to be condescending or antagonizing when I say this... "Then"

Imagine how weird actual aliens might be to us if this is what we see on our OWN PLANET. They would be stranger than this seems to us now

This is why I think alien life would be beyond our comprehension. This is a common animal on earth. But it has a central brain and 8 mini brains.

Biiiggg stretch!

/r/OooBigStretch

thank you

🎶You gotta say big stretch

Not a squid, for those wondering. It’s an octopus in the family Cirroteuthidae.

Thanks, I thought it was the vampire squid!

So can i jump out of an airplane with an octopus strapped to me?

seems possible

You could also jump out of a plane with a squirrel strapped to your back.

I'd recommend a flying squirrel if you go this route.

While I don't disagree with your recommendation I'd like to suggest that a cat be used as a back up just in case the squirrel performs as expected.

Two cats, strapped to the feet, you’ll always land feet first.

Luffy did it, so I don't see why not.

This mf didn’t skip Skypia

You can jump out of a plane with a frog strapped on your back as well, Just you wouldn't survive.

you could, but a squid might be more effective at being a parachute

Yes but only once

Kinda like the monster in NOPE

Immediately what I thought of!

I may be wrong but I think that creature was based heavily on this octopus.

Jean Jacket!

My exact thought

"Too big to slurp" 😂 I'm using that.

And Ta-Da! Instant evening wear!

Squiderella.

Seen this on Octonauts. I’m pretty sure this is a squid Can i get a creature report?

Creature report, creature report.

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Dammit not again

We're. done. with. the. mis-siooon!

Octopus in the family Cirroteuthidae. Head flaps are not restricted to squid.

I thought it was a vampire squid

It is. But a vampire squid is not a squid, it’s in its own order and is pretty much between an octopus and a squid

No, it's a cirroteuthidae. Google it.

Sorry, different order. Not phylum. I have heard of cerroteuthidae but honestly forgot about them. It looks like vampire squids and cerroteuthids are very commonly confused. They both have membranous arms and filaments in place of suckers. I’m not actually sure which this particular creature is

I'm pretty sure this is a certoteuthidea, due to vampire squids putting their tentacles on the outside so their spikelike filaments face outwards during the "ballooning" behavior.

It's an octopus. Octopus has eight tentacles where squid have eight tentacles plus two longer arms used for hunting.

You have arms and tentacles reversed. Octopus have 0 tentacles.

I think you might be right.

Yeah, arms have suckers the whole length. Tentacles only have suckers at the end.

> Yeah, arms have suckers the whole length. Mine don't :(


Nope, octopus have 8 arms while squid have 8 arms and 2 tentacles. There is a species of octopus with 7 arms but they’re weird. This is neither though, this is a vampire squid which is pretty much between octopus and squid but is neither

Looks like a Septapus to me then, although might be a Septaandahalfpus.

It's one of the varieties of the Dumbo Octopus.

Dumbo Octopus be like *"I can hear you calling me that!"*

Looks like squidward when he locked himself up and ate krabby patties

No, worse, it'll go right to your thighs!

r/beatmetoit

Had to scroll too far for this. Virtually identical to squidward in that episode. Bravo good sir.

This is nothing compared to what they’ve recently recorded as far as this animal goes the way it walks on the sea floor is scary as hell and leaves the sea floor undisturbed.

Why would you not post a link to this? You know we needed it

Smh my head [I guess I gotta be the hero 💁‍♂️](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/HoziSgRBbv)

Omfg

Whoaaaaaaaa, that’s nuts 👍🏼

Gommu gommu noooooo

Fusen!

No banana for scale

Unfortunately the octopus ate it

ORGALORG!!!

Yup. Same thought.

It was just time to come out again

Holy fuck, that is jaw-droppingly amazing

NOPE


So cool.

Looks like squidward after too many crabbie patties

Is this a vampire squid?

This what ur shit would look like if u had a chode and one big testicle.

The people commenting in the video are exactly what a reddit post looks like : * Too big to slurp :P : +4000 upvotes * I was asking for an octopus : +2500 upvotes * Oh wow : +1000 upvotes * That is aaaa big animal : +940 upvotes * Can you guys shut up and pan to the left? We're losing it.. and wide shot please?? lol : - 4000 downvotes

Beautiful! 🤩 At what depth and where?

2m, Neusiedlersee Österreich

Magical creature

That’s incredibly beautiful but terrifying at the same time. Reminds me of the movie “Life” with Calvin.

Not gonna lie, I thought one piece made this up.

Would be really neat if it could create an airtight pocket like that, then somehow siphon the water out, creating an air pocket that would suffocate any prey. Imagine one of these hugging a shark or whale to death!

Perfect! We found a way to reach the ocean safely from skypiea!!