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Dedication to offspring takes many forms in the animal kingdom, but few compare to what happens in the deep sea. Elephant mothers carry their calves for nearly two years, and penguin fathers endure ...

Five years ago, a group of scientists stumbled upon 20,000 pearl octopuses brooding their eggs near the base of an extinct volcano, 80 miles off of the Monterey coast. They had discovered the largest ...

(CNN) — Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth’s most challenging environments. The 2018 discovery of thousands of the eight-legged cephalopods ...