This is Amazing !! You are looking at a very large hinged Atlantic Cockle shell. The little white things inside of the cockle are Octopus eggs 🐙….Octopus only lay eggs one time …after that she will watch over her eggs until they hatch then she passes away . The reason she dies is because after she lays her eggs she stops eating and puts all of her energy into protecting her eggs . Sometimes before the eggs hatch the mom will pass away … after laying eggs sometimes starts to self mutilate by tea

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10K views · 38 reactions | #OnThisDay 1969: Cutting-edge cockle-harvesting crafts were causing commotion among conventional cockle-collectors. Chaos! | BBC Archive | Facebook

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On a roadtrip in Galicia, Spain, we stumble upon about 100 women in wetsuits in the bay of Muros y Noia harvesting “berberechos" or cockles. These mariscadoras aka fisherwomen have been harvesting cockles for generations and generations. The Galego people have many ways of cooking cockles, from eating them raw, to steaming them, to adding them to empanadas. To conserve the cockle population, the local government has enacted size limits and daily collection limits for the cockles. In autumn, the