Female squid hatched eggs for nearly four and a half years

When scientists have found for the first time, in 2007, this female â€" a deep-water species Octopus Graneledone boreopacifica-Monterey Bay, the animal was already protecting their eggs. The female Octopus had put her eggs on a rocky outcrop, the 1,397 meters deep.

This Bay off the Californian coast houses the Monterey Canyon, a submarine Valley with sheer walls of more than 1,500 meters high and 400 kilometers long, with his background reaches, at the end of the road, the 4,000 of depth.

Four years later, scientists returned to the site and found the same female Octopus to protect the eggs. The devotion of this animal was great, giving their eggs the best chances of survival in the depths of the sea, where life can be hard.

Over time that researchers have monitored the copy, the Octopus has never been seen feeding and when scientists brought you the female crab meat touched. According to experts ' suspicions, the female Octopus will have eaten eggs unfertilized or damaged.

Over time, the animal began to deteriorate physically, losing color. to identify, scientists had to look for scarring on their tentacles, referred to the Tree Hugger.

One day, 53 months later, investigators returned to the scene and the female Octopus was gone. At the scene were eggshells, a sign that the small molluscs had finally hatched. It was known that the species of shallow-water Octopus clashed their eggs between one to three months, but had never been possible to observe an Octopus from the depths.

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