If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

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Sarasota, Florida -- A Caribbean pygmy octopus has hatched young babies at The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota. The momma octopus came from the wild, where she must have already mated, ...

An octopus no bigger than a pencil eraser? It's true: The Caribbean pygmy octopuses that hatched this month at The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla., are no bigger than about a ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals of biology. The usual suspects—fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, among others—all have ...

Cephalopod Specialist Brian Siegel is once again tending to some eight-tentacled babies behind the scenes in The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory. Baby Caribbean pygmy octopus were born at Sarasota ...

When it’s fully grown, this Caribbean pygmy octopus will be just the size of a silver dollar. As a hatchling, it’s dwarfed by a penny. The Aquarium at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, ...

A distinct striped pattern on a species of octopus varies from one individual to the next, which could help researchers monitor the rare animal. Pygmy zebra octopuses (Octopus chierchiae), also known ...

Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota is now home to several baby octopuses. The last week of December, more than 20 Caribbean pygmy octopuses were born. Biologists were not expecting them and said the ...