Sorcery Under the Sea, Octopus Houdini Escapes Boat Via Tiny Hole (Video)

Want to see a magic trick? Well, we've got one right here!

Check out Octopus Houdini, a clever Octopus famous for his daring escape acts, similar to the magician himself. (Make sure to check out an awesome video at the end of the article that shows just what this guy can do!)

The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda, that have two eyes and four pairs of arms. Like other cephalopods, according to Tree Hugger, they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms.

As octopi can be rather flexible, this video confirms that they can also squeeze into rather small spaces. Some may say the phrase "fitting a camel through the eye of a needle" could be synonymous with the species, as well. It's amazingly impressive to see just how malleable an octopus' internal organs can be, especially during an exercise like this.

Researchers believe that as they increasingly study octopi, they are also convinced that these boneless, alien-like creatures who ancestors diverged from the lineage that would essentially lead to ours roughly 500 to 700 million years ago have developed intelligence, emotions, and individual personalities, including consciousness itself, as shown through this sorcery.

The video was shot by Chance Miller near the Chiswell Islands in Alaska.

Want to see the octopus performing magic? Check out this mysterious wizardry of him performing, courtesy of YouTube.