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In the cold, dark waters of the Gulf of California, a strange squid was discovered keeping vigil over her incubating young.
This would be unusual enough on its own; few squids brood their eggs this way. But these eggs were also unusually enormous, twice as large as the eggs of other brooding squids."Our unexpected encounter with a squid brooding giant eggs caught the attention of everyone in the ship's control room. This remarkable sighting underscores the diversity of ways that animals adapt to the unique challenges of living in the deep.
A greater number of offspring, of course, increases the chance some will survive to adulthood and make baby squid of their very own. But the conditions in the bathypelagic are more stable and predictable than the waters above, where food availability or predators could be a greater concern.
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