Ashley Balzer Vigil

Ashley Balzer Vigil writes about astrophysics for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center by day and moonlights as a freelance environmental writer.

Articles by: Ashley Balzer Vigil

A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a time span of multiple years), she does not eat and dies around the same time that her eggs hatch.

4 never-before-seen octopuses discovered in deep sea off Costa Rica

By Ashley Balzer Vigil published

Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers.