Brooding Octopod (IMAGE)

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Brooding Octopod

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This photograph shows an octopod brooding its eggs on the stalk of a dead deep-sea sponge. The sponge stalk is attached to a manganese nodule, a naturally forming rock containing commercially interesting metal deposits.

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Image courtesy of the Alfred Wegener Institute OFOS team 2015.

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