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This Rare Video of a Tiny Baby Octopus Hatching Is Breaking The Internet [View all]
SO CUTE.
MICHELLE STARR 14 FEB 2018
Most of us won't ever get to see a baby octopus hatching in the wild, but luckily Virginia Aquarium managed to film it happening in captivity, and have share it online for everyone to enjoy.
In a remarkable 10-second video posted to Facebook and Twitter, a single tiny Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) is shown wriggling free of a small cluster of eggs.
Almost immediately its pigment changes from white to dark brown.
According to Virginia Aquarium, this is totally normal - all the baby octopuses they observed went through this rapid pigment change immediately after hatching.
More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/baby-caribbean-reef-octopus-hatching-video-virginia-aquarium
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