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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 ...

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

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

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

Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses - a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.

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

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

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