Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth's most challenging environments.
Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth's most challenging environments.'s surface flummoxed and fascinated marine scientists in equal measure.
— was full of a species called Muusoctopus robustus, nicknamed the pearl octopus by the research team because of the way they look while upside down protecting their eggs.counted more than 6000 octopuses in just one segment of the site. The institute's ROV Don Ricketts went on 14 day-long follow-up dives to the site between 2019 and 2022, taking high-definition video of the octopuses and mapping the octopus garden at a meter-scale resolution.
Scars and other distinguishing features allowed the scientists to monitor individual octopuses and the development of their broods. "Although it's risky to brood in this warm water — you may be cooking your eggs, you may have abnormalities — the shorter brood period is where the advantage comes in and that seems to play out perfectly for them because we see what looks to be fairly high hatch rates," he said.
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