Interesting Facts About Mollusca

Interesting Facts about Molluscs

 * 1) The female octopus stays with 50,000 eggs for six weeks during the incubation period. When the eggs hatch, she is already dead or is too weak to fight of predators, so they kill her leaving her young on their own.
 * 2) Mollusks are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms.
 * 3) Some oysters alternate their gender, one year they could be male, the next year hey could be female!
 * 4) Squid have little or no sense of hearing. Octopus eggs hatching