To humans, the bite of a blue-line octopus can be life-threatening, but within its own species, it’s just a regular […] ...
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...
A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male ...
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 ...
Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses — a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.
A photographer and videographer had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim with a blanket octopus when he saw it in the ...
In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.