As It Happens6:30Scientists discover rare, thriving octopus nursery — and maybe a new species
Beth Orcutt will never forget the moment she witnessed a baby octopus hatch in the deepsea.
The marine scientist was co-leading a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition to study the ocean’s depths off Costa Rica using a remotely operated vehicle, when her team saw little mollusk emerge.
They weren’t looking for baby octopuses. In fact, until that moment, scientists weren’t sure if it was possible for an octopus embryo to survive in such a seemingly inhospitable environment.
“It was very, very exciting,” Orcutt, a senior scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine,
