Thanks to Melissa (http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=473) for the heads-up on the following article from GulfLive.com, about a mother octopus currently at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab, who is guarding her thousands of eggs.

Mother octopus gives all for brood (http://www.gulflive.com/mississippi/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/105981938278551.xml)