TGIF: 8-Legged Mom Has 50,000 Babies: 2-Legged Woman Watches

H/t to NPR

Laurynn, it turns out, often spends her winter evenings diving into the ocean, not too far from Harbor Avenue in downtown West Seattle. A couple of years ago, not far from the shore, she discovered a giant Pacific octopus doing exactly what I described — having babies…In the video, you can see it all: the octopus in her underwater den protected by rocks; braids of octopus eggs; the mom blowing on the eggs to keep them clean and aerated; then, at around 1:52 in this video, there it is — the first hatchling!