Birth of a baby octopus viewed over 600,000 times

Friday, February 9, 2018
VIRGINIA (KTRK) -- The Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center has welcomed a baby octopus.

Videos of the baby hatching were watched over 600,000 times on Twitter.
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In the video, you can see the sudden color change as soon as it entered the water for the first time.
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Experts say that could be due to the stress of being hatched or from the instinct camouflage.

The aquarium says the baby octopus has not been named yet.
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