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, ...

The death adder with a rare mutation was spotted during a venom milking programme at the Australian Reptile Park. “The ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.