Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time.

INTERESTING FACT

Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time.

These eight-legged sea creatures lay a staggering 56,000 eggs at one time. Each egg—which biologist Jim Cosgrove describes as "a gleaming white tear-drop about the size of a grain of rice"—comes out on its own, then is gathered up along with all of the other eggs and kept in a protective braid-like den until they're ready to hatch.