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So how awesome is it that our first view of the seafloor on #OctopusFriday is an octopus. Exactly.

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Just saying, "okay, I'm ready." "I'm ready for my close up."

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That looks like a Bathypolypus. And Bathypolypus has the suckers in two series. Okay.

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So it would be Bathypolypus pterasteridae.

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Oh! Here's another octopus!

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Oh, wow. It's like they're giving us a little show.

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Here's another one, hold on.

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Mike, would you be able to tell us what the usual size of an adult Bathypolypus is?

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Are these young? Because they seem really small.

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A large one, from the tip of its body, the mantle, to tip of the arms, a large one would be probably eight inches or so.

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This is exactly where I'd expect to see Bathypolypus.

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Every time I've seen them, they been in this sort of complex, but soft, sediment and habitat.

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Octopus's garden. Yeah.