The mother octopus was still caring for her eggs in September 2011, but she was gone and the egg cases were empty when the sub returned a month later. "The ultimate fate of the brooding female is ...

An octopus off the coast of California has broken the record for the longest brood. The dedicated mom guarded her eggs for 53 months until they were ready to hatch.

Discover and watch how this giant Pacific octopus mother lays down her life to make sure that her eggs are safe.

Scientists on Wednesday described how the female of an octopus species that dwells almost a mile below the sea surface spends about 4-1/2 years brooding her eggs, protecting them vigilantly until ...

According to a 2014 study, this particular deep-sea octopus, Graneledone boreopacifica, is known to have the longest-known egg-brooding period of any animal due to the cold temperatures of the deep ...

The Octopus Garden, at the base of Davidson Seamount about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of Monterey, California, is the largest of a handful of octopus nurseries recently discovered in the ...

This deep-sea octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) spent four and one half years brooding her eggs on a ledge near the bottom of Monterey Canyon, about 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) below the ocean ...

On the last dive of the expedition, along Hesquiat slope, they came across a nursery of deep sea octopus brooding on their eggs within cave-like features in ­carbonate rock created by the cold seeps.

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 ...

To solve this mystery, we assembled geologists, biologists and engineers. Using Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ’s deep-sea robots and sensors, we studied and mapped the Octopus Garden during ...