Thousands of octopus moms are protecting their newly laid eggs on the ocean floor of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
And the underwater photography is helping to unravel a mystery of this real-life octopus garden, one of the few known nesting grounds of its kind in the world. It's the work of a research group that includes San Jose State University/Moss Landing Marine Laboratory and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, also known as MBARI.
Barry showed off the type of submersible vehicles -- used to monitor the site since it was first discovered in 2018 -- near an extinct sea volcano about 80 miles off the coast of Monterey. And since that time, researchers have also turned to increasingly sophisticated instruments to learn more. And since the discovery, San Jose State Assistant Professor Amanda Kahn and her colleagues have worked to understand why the Octopuses migrate to the area to mate and eventually give birth to their young."We saw that the water was shimmering and wavering in a way, kind of like you would see heat rising off the asphalt on a hot day. And that made us think that maybe there was something about the water conditions there," Professor Kahn said.
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