The world’s best mother: meet the octopus that guards its eggs for over four years

Scientists discover that Graneledone boreopacifica has the longest brooding time of any animal on the planet The ultimate goal of all species on the planet is procreation, the act of making anew.

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In March 2007, the marine biologists, headed by Bruce Robison from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, used a remotely-operated vehicle to visit a deep sea site in the Monterey Submarine Canyon off of central California. At 1,397 meters (4,583 feet) deep they came on a female Graneledone boreopacifica protecting a brood of its eggs. A month earlier, when the ROV had visited the same site, the octopus hadn’t been there…

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