A photographer and videographer had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim with a blanket octopus when he saw it in 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 ...
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.
Animals have evolved many different ways of protecting themselves, from prickly quills and razor-sharp teeth to clever ...
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 ...
Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...