Love is in the water, and UCMP’s Roy Caldwell has the photos to prove it! The cephalopod resource website TONMO has posted a sequence of Roy’s crystal-clear photos depicting a pair of mating Abdopus aculeatus octopuses. Readers can follow this relationship from the first, tentative moments of courtship through to a brood of adorable octopus eggs.
Click through to TONMO for the photo essay and accompanying commentary.