🎓 Academic Random Facts #35

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Fact: Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time​

 

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On average, a giant Pacific octopus will lay 56,000 eggs at the end of a , over the course of about a month, NPR reports. At first, these new babies float through the surrounding water unattached to one another or their mother. But then the mother gathers each egg—which is about the size of a grain of rice—and weaves them into braids, allowing her to keep an eye on everyone at the same time.​