A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography successfully hatched over 3,000 Red Octopus hatchlings, a species ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters. (MBARI) Off the coast of California is ...

An octopus named Ghost will tend to her eggs that will never hatch, a California aquarium said. Screengrab from @Aquariumpacific on Instagram. A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...

A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to caring for her eggs at a California aquarium. But the eggs will never hatch, according to a Sept. 8 Facebook post by the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Off the coast of California is an unusual "octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...