Octopus Cares For Her Eggs For 53 Months, Then Dies
In April of 2007, Bruce Robison sent a submersible into a huge underwater canyon in California’s Monterey Bay. At the canyon’s base, 1400 metres below the surface, he spotted a lone female octopus—Graneledone boreopacifica—crawling towards a rocky slope. The team sent the sub to the same site 38 days later and found the same female, easily recognisable through her distinctive scars.
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