
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic
Opalescent inshore squid, like these off the coast of California, take the mass production approach to species survival. At mating time, a female will litter the seafloor with hundreds of white, fingerlike egg cases containing more than 50,000 eggs.
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