With squid mating season in full spring, those visiting the beaches might come across squid ‘egg mops’ brought ashore by the tides.

Capitella worms will make their way to the eggs and wrestle inside. Photograph By Jules Jacobs An opalescent squid’s experience of motherhood is almost cruelly brief.

Squid are highly sensitive to changes in water flow, are vulnerable to disease, ... Eco-friendly treatment saves squid eggs from newfound parasite. Story by Science X staff • 3mo.

The outlet explained that the appearance of this newfound egg sac shared many similarities with the egg sacs of the southern shortfin squid, which on average contain between 50,000 and 200,000 ...

These colorful embryonic squid are all feeding off yolk sacs within their eggs. Squid develop directly, which means that the embryos have the same basic body plan as an adult squid. Get a closer view ...

To finish up our celebration of Cephalopod Week we wanted to share a bit of squid news. A group of researchers recently identified a potentially new squid species in the family Gonatidae. Scientists ...

"Each female carries 50-60 eggs, and these eggs hatch within three weeks. The average incubation time for the squids is one month, meaning that you have many hundreds of copepods per squid egg ...