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

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

While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...

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

Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...

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

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

Scientists have not discovered an antidote to TTX. Researchers in Australia recently learned that male blue-ringed octopuses also use TTX during reproduction. Females are much larger than males ...

There’s an incredible specimen forest of hemlock,” says Wildeboer, cofounder of Ottawa’s Vandenberg & Wildeboer Architects, ...

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 ...