Meet The Deep-Sea Octopus That Guarded Her Eggs For 4.5 Years — Without Eating Once

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...
New York Post

Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say

It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...
Yahoo

Beloved SoCal octopus will spend her final days caring for eggs that will never hatch

A beloved octopus is entering the last stage of her life in Long Beach, and will spend the remainder of her days caring for eggs that will never hatch. News of the approaching demise of Ghost — a ...
AOL

Introducing: the Rare Blanket Octopus

Blanket Octopus female diving. Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world's oddest couples, with the female weighing 40,000 times more than the male.© Sam Robertshaw/Shutterstock.com This ...
SanLuisObispo

Dying octopus tends to thousands of eggs that will never hatch at CA aquarium

An octopus named Ghost will tend to her eggs that will never hatch, a California aquarium said. Screengrab from @Aquariumpacific on Instagram. A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to ...