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Sarasota, Florida -- A Caribbean pygmy octopus has hatched young babies at The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota. The momma octopus came from the wild, where she must have already mated, ...

An octopus no bigger than a pencil eraser? It's true: The Caribbean pygmy octopuses that hatched this month at The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla., are no bigger than about a ...

Cephalopod Specialist Brian Siegel is once again tending to some eight-tentacled babies behind the scenes in The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory. Baby Caribbean pygmy octopus were born at Sarasota ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals of biology. The usual suspects—fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, among others—all have ...

Some animals get only the briefest chance at life. Instead of stretching across years, their time is measured in days or ...

When it’s fully grown, this Caribbean pygmy octopus will be just the size of a silver dollar. As a hatchling, it’s dwarfed by a penny. The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, ...

Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota is now home to several baby octopuses. The last week of December, more than 20 Caribbean pygmy octopuses were born. Biologists were not expecting them and said the ...