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

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 during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...

Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find - Octopus uses symbiotic ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...