Wake up, new squid species just dropped.

What's most remarkable about it is the size of the eggs that this mother squid was carrying in her arms.

It's Thursday, June 27th, and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer Shishana Bucksbaum.

We're concluding our celebration of Sefflepod Week with two stories, both about new discoveries in the

Sefflepod family. This first one takes place over 30 years ago.

The large Pacific striped octopus, the L.P.S.O for short,

is an incredibly social animal.

They live in pairs mate by kissing beak to beak, and even take care of

several eggs they lay. But these traits aren't normal for octopuses. And for a while,

scientists didn't even think this type of octopus even existed, but one person did, Arcadio Roroniche, a diver and artist who lived in Panama. Here's Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis with more.

Here to tell us about Arcadio's work and his fight for the LPSO's recognition is Kenah Hughes Castleberry, freelance writer and science

communicator at Jilla at the University of Colorado Boulder, who recently wrote an article

for Science Friday.com about the unique octopus's story.

Kena, welcome to Science Friday.

Thank you so much, Kathleen, for having me on.

So before we get into this, can you tell us about what makes this octopus unique?

Absolutely. So most octopuses are known as being solitary creatures.

They live in dens by themselves. They only interact when they mate and even then when they

mate they often mate at a distance. So usually the male may fling an arm full of sperm at a female or sometimes...

Very romantic.

Absolutely, or sometimes they stretch an arm that has the sperm packet at the female, you know, again, from that safe

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