Mother Octopus Sets Longest Egg-Tending Record: More Than 4 Years on Baby Watch

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

Animals can take a year to gestate, but a deep-sea octopus has broken all previous records, hatching her eggs after 53 months -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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