A devoted mother pearl octopus brooding her eggs – the baby octopus’s eyes and tentacles are visible inside the egg casings – showing they are half way through their development. In 2018 ...
When it’s time, the octopus lays upwards of 100,000 eggs, then retrieves the hectocotylus and spreads the sperm out over the egg bundle. Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus ...
Argonaut (Argonauta argo) must go through to send baby argonauts ... This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold its eggs is made of paper-thin calcium ...