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Octopus has egg-brooding period

Deep-sea octopus has longest egg-brooding period of over four years

In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers wrote that "the rock face she had occupied held the tattered remnants of empty egg capsules." After counting the remnants of the egg capsules, the researchers estimated that the female octopus had been brooding about 160 eggs.