The record-holder among octopuses was a captive Bathypolypus arcticus who guarded her eggs for 14 months. Among animals that raise their young internally, elephants do so for 21 months ...

For comparison, the previous eight-armed record-holder for brooding length was Bathypolypus arcticus, a deep-sea octopus that protected its eggs for 14 months in a lab. Among fish, the Magellan ...

The longest octopus brooding before this was 14 months by the species Bathypolypus arcticus in a laboratory setting. For animals that give birth to live offspring, elephants carry their young in ...

Previously, the longest brooding octopus was the deep-sea Bathypolypus arcticus, which had a brooding time of some 14 months in the lab. For most shallow-water species, the brooding time lasts ...

Most octopuses die shortly after incubating their egg clutch, except for a tea-cup sized octopus called Bathypolypus arcticus, which frequents waters off Nova Scotia. This octopus was captured on ...

But the longest gestation period previously known was 14 months, in the octopus Bathypolypus arcticus 2. Robison and his colleagues have been monitoring the Pacific Ocean site where they ...

The Bathypolypus articus broods her eggs on a rock at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster. Similar bans have been passed in Washington and California, and are being considered in ...