I thought it is now considered correct to say octopuses, but who cares. Here is a picture of octopus larvae and they are awesome! I found this on BoingBoing, but the original source is the National Geographic. A shell had been found using an ROV (a remote operated vehicle) on a recent visit to Gabon's Loango National Park. A female octopus came out of the shell, so they put it in sea water. She had laid her eggs in the shell and the eggs were hatching. PRESTO! Thousands of octopus larvae began to stream out. Apparently they were changing colour from transparent with dark spots (I know transparent is not a colour) to brown.
Want to know more? Enric Sala has the whole series of his posts up and they can be found here. Spoiler Alert: It's fascinating stuff.
Photo Credit: Enric Sala (obviously)
Want to know more? Enric Sala has the whole series of his posts up and they can be found here. Spoiler Alert: It's fascinating stuff.
Photo Credit: Enric Sala (obviously)
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