With an expensive aquarium set-up in place, an octopus named Terrance arrived in ... Then, something unexpected happened—Terrance laid 50 or so eggs. While the true gender of Terrance came ...

Terrance turned out to be female — and pregnant. One octopus turned into 51, eight tentacles into 408. The boy’s father, Dr.

On the researchers’ final visit, the eggs had hatched and the female was gone. Find out more from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute on YouTube. Although no other octopus is known to look ...

and Steve Haddock (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) caught some rare footage of the popularly called "seven-armed" octopus. In the last 27 years, there have only been 3 sightings of this ...

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 ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than ... Females live long enough to tend fastidiously to their eggs, but they do not eat during this months-long brooding period, and ...