"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.

Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...

Animals have evolved many different ways of protecting themselves, from prickly quills and razor-sharp teeth to clever ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and ...

In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.

What is even more frightening is that there is no known antidote for its venom. The colorful blue rings of the octopus flash as a signal, but it may already be too late by then. This little ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study. The males have evolved to use a venom called ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners, observations suggest 1. Blue-lined octopuses ( Hapalochlaena fasciata) have paralysing venom ...

Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...

Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the sea deed ...