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

The small blue ring octopus is extremely venomous, with toxin 1,200 times more powerful than cyanide. Its bite can swiftly ...

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

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

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

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

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

But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating ... discovering that the males had larger venom glands than females despite their smaller size. Next up, he plans to investigate whether ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

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