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

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 ...

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.

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...

The blue ring octopus, though small, carries a lethal venom 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide, capable of paralyzing and ...

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

The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its deadly tetrodotoxin venom into the females to immobilise them during copulation, say researchers at the University of Queensland.

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

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

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 ...