This is a video of a little cuttlefish in the waters off the coast of Kota Ambon, Indonesia doing its best to match its own color and pattern to the surrounding scenery for MAXIMUM CAMOUFLAGE. Man, these little aliens are totally nuts. Do you think they came to earth in

This is a clip from some divers exploring the waters off the coast of Toyooka, Japan when they swam across a rarely seen giant squid. Just look at that thing! It’s easy to see now how stories of the kraken came to be. The squid, likely a juvenile only a

This is a video of Youtuber Ace Underwater dropping a GoPro off the Navarre Beach fishing pier in Florida to see what the hell is down there. SPOILER: a bunch of fish. And a dolphin. I did not see any treasure chests though, or any ghost pirates. A shame, because

These are two videos of precious lil iridescent bobtail squids burying themselves in the sand. The diminutive (~3″ max) squids don’t even look real, they look like animals from a Pixar movie. But they allegedly are real, although with all this AI running amok, you have to wonder. I’m skeptical

This is a video of pastry chef and chocolatier Amaury Guichon (previously) making an incredibly intricate — and delicate — nautilus sculpture entirely from chocolate. Wow! The process is pretty fascinating, and includes layering chocolate on semi-inflated balloons to form semi-spherical shapes. I wonder how much time in total it

Because under the sea is the place to be if you’re freaky deaky, this is a video of photographer and Andrea Humphreys getting hugged and kissed by a giant Pacific octopus while exploring the Campbell River in Vancouver, British Columbia. In her own words, which yes, do involve suckers on

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney has found that octopuses will intentionally throw shells and other seafloor debris at one another, with about 66% of the throwing activity performed by females, and often aimed at males who are harassing them. “Piss off times eight, loser!”

In other rare under the sea news, this is some footage of an elusive box jellyfish (Chirodectes maculatus), a species that has only been recorded once previously. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I 100% agree — it looks like somebody doodled all over it with a Sharpie. And