Splash and Bubbles
Good Old Fashioned Mollusk
Clip | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Wave and Gush help the kids figure out the species of the mystery creature.
On their search for answers, the kids run into Wave the octopus. Wave teaches them their mystery creature is in fact a mollusk like himself - a cephalopod mollusk to be exact! Gush tells the kids they are swimming amongst a living fossil called a nautilus!
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Splash and Bubbles
Good Old Fashioned Mollusk
Clip | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
On their search for answers, the kids run into Wave the octopus. Wave teaches them their mystery creature is in fact a mollusk like himself - a cephalopod mollusk to be exact! Gush tells the kids they are swimming amongst a living fossil called a nautilus!
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Splash and Bubbles
Splash and Bubbles is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
- Hey, there, kiddos.
Jellyfish, huh?
They'’’re always around somewhere.
- Okay.
Well, if you see any, can you let us know?
- Sure.
Say, who'’’s your little mollusk buddy?
I haven'’’t seen him before.
- Oh, that'’’s just a-- wait, did you say mollusk?
- Sure.
He'’’s a mollusk if I'’’ve ever seen one, and I see one every day, if you know what I mean.
[chuckling] I'’’m talking about me.
Also a mollusk.
- Oh.
So it isn'’’t a cnidarian like the jellyfish?
- No, no, no.
Definitely a mollusk.
In fact, we'’’re both cephalopod mollusks.
You can tell because we both have tentacles.
Just like yours truly, invertebrate all the way.
- But what about the shell?
You don'’’t have a shell.
- That'’’s true, but a lot of mollusks do, like sea snails.
Yep, looks like a good old-fashioned mollusk to me.
- You have no idea how old-fashioned.
all: Gush!
- Gush, what do you mean?
- Your new friend here is an ancient creature known as a nautilus.
They'’’ve been around for about 550 million years.
That'’’s why they'’’re known as living fossils.
all: Wow.
- That'’’s even older than my dad.
- That'’’s amazing.
- Nautiluses live deep down in the ocean and don'’’t come up this far very often.
He probably got separated from his family somewhere, and then you found him.
- Aww.
Poor little nautilus.
- Deep down, huh?
Hey!
I know where to take the nautilus.
Support for PBS provided by: