These tiny baby octopuses hatching will brighten your miserable existence

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We know you’re probably sick of cute octopus videos at this point but please, bear with us.

The Virginia Aquarium posted a video of octopuses (yes “octopuses” is grammatically correct, nerds) hatching and displaying their colour-changing abilities.

ICYMI: Your daily squee has arrived#octobabies pic.twitter.com/D9e5T5bkun

— Virginia Aquarium (@VAAquarium) February 7, 2018

Apparently the babies went dark straight away because it was so freakin’ weird they were firing off chromatophores (colour-changing cells) like nobody’s business. Read more…

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