Octopus mom waits record 4.5 years for eggs to hatch

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 14:10 in Biology & Nature

A devoted deep-sea octopus mom has broken a record for parental self-sacrifice after spending 4.5 years with her arms wrapped around her eggs until they hatched.

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