The female octopus raise her own eggs 4 years - longer than all the famous science animals, tell zoologists from a Research University in the aquarium Monterey Bay.

All this time the animal clears eggs and protects them from predators, practically does not feed. About own research scientists reported in the journal PLoS ONE.

All recent decades oceanographers periodically descend to the bottom of the sea Monterey canyon. In early may 2007, they found at the bottom of the female octopus from the kind of Graneledone boreopacifica. And during all further dives, until 2011, the animal found on the same place. Her eggs were made bigger
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