Scientists have captured incredible footage of a deep-sea mother squid clutching dozens of unusually huge eggs.
The footage shows a deep-dwelling mother squid cradling about a cluster of 40 strikingly large eggs — each egg twice as large as any other ever observed of other brooding deep-sea squids.
The researchers suspect a lack of predators in the deep sea, or possibly a more stable food supply, enabled this squid to evolve reproductive habits that devoted more resources to fewer eggs, rather than the approach of many tiny eggs.By analyzing the video footage and studying specimens of similar-looking squids collected on previous expeditions to the Gulf of California, the MBARI research team determined this was likely a previously unknown species of the animal in the family Gonatidae.
“Our unexpected encounter with a squid brooding giant eggs caught the attention of everyone in the ship’s control room. This remarkable sighting underscores the diversity of ways that animals adapt to the unique challenges of living in the deep.”
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