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And the baby octopuses in their egg cases were a little larger each time the scientists checked.—Literary Hub, 5 May 2026 Live and dead cockroaches, as well as egg cases, were found in the kitchen area.—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026 Artificial corals can give deep-water marine life a place to live; cat sharks, for example, wrap necklace-like egg cases around any structure, natural or not, that sticks up from the seafloor.—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 The list below takes a closer look at seven of the most unusual eggs (and egg cases) in the animal world and the creatures that produce them.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for egg case