Sentences with phrase «female octopuses»

The eggs themselves weren't surprising — female octopuses typically lay eggs.

The octo - mom is likely dead — female octopuses die once they finish brooding.

Most female octopuses are quite aggressive towards males, and most observed mating has involved males performing the task of inserting sperm into the female as quickly (and with as little contact) as possible.

In the struggle for survival, female octopuses may be their own worst enemies: Sometimes instead of mating, they devour their partners.

Posturing and color change among the ways that male and female octopuses frequently communicate, study finds

But a new study reveals that both male and female octopuses frequently communicate with each other in challenging displays that include posturing and changing color.

Over this same two - year period, Ross displayed several combinations of male and female octopuses together in a shared exhibit at the Academy's Steinhart Aquarium to observe social interaction and group dynamics.

That was the reality for one female octopus, Graneledone boreopacifica, and it's the longest known brooding period of any animal, reported biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in July.

Not exact matches

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface.

At last we know why female argonaut octopuses have a shell, and what use they put them to.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

Additionally, unlike other octopus species in which females tend to die after producing a single clutch of eggs, female larger Pacific striped octopuses can lay many clutches of eggs continuously over the course of their adult lives.

The team also observed pairs of octopuses feeding in the unique beak - to - beak position, allowing both male and female to share a meal, and even share the same den for days at a time.

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

Blanket octopuses are pelagic, never touching the sea floor, Norman explains, which makes it hard for males to find females in the open ocean.

The male fish have no grounds for smugness, though: in other species giant females take things much further, with female blanket octopuses reaching almost 200 times the length of the male.

For the first time, scientists studied these cephalopods in captivity, allowing 24 octopuses (13 male and 11 female) to mate in large tanks after acclimatizing to their new homes.

Other octopus species would win the gold medal of parental sacrifice: After laying their eggs, females starve to death in order to protect them until they hatch.

11 The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her — and leaving it there.

The larger pacific striped octopus does something quite different: The males and females stay intertwined, beak - to - beak, as if kissing.

Once the mating took place, researchers noticed something else: Instead of dropping a single brood of eggs in their lifetimes — which is thought to be common practice for octopuses — the females would continue to mate and lay eggs even as they produced hatchlings.

This species of octopus have polarizing size difference between genders: the female can grow as large as four inches, while the male can only grow 3/4 inch.

Recent paintings follow a group of white nude females in exotic landscapes, where they commingle with wild animals — riding alligators, hunting rabbits, draping snakes and octopi over their shoulders.