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

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

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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.

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Name a cuter mollusc than these little babies -- that's right, you can't! Unless of course you name the Flamboyant Cuttlefish...

Via Giphy

#MolluscAppreciation.

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