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 ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...

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

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 females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners, observations suggest 1. Blue-lined octopuses ( Hapalochlaena fasciata) have paralysing venom ...

Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...

One of the peculiarities of blue-ringed octopus venom – potentially 1000 times more toxic than cyanide – is that it leaves victims conscious as they suffocate. The octopus hit Kalman with so ...

The blue ring octopus, though small, carries a lethal venom 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide, capable of paralyzing and killing a human within minutes. There is no antidote for its venom ...

Although the octopus held on to the diver with its tentacles and didn’t want to let go, had the creature felt threatened, it could have bitten the diver with its sharp beak and injected venom.

Then, venom immobilizes the fish so the snail can ... But with the cephalopods, which include octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, we can order them from the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory ...

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