The Kenya Times on MSN2h
Boy in Critical Condition After Eating Snake
A family is in shock after their kin was hospitalized after eating a raw snake. The 15-year-old boy from Chemogoch Village, ...
This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
ZME Science on MSN4d
Venomous love: These male octopuses inject venom into females so they can escape being eaten
In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.
Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the ...
New Scientist on MSN3d
Male octopus injects female with venom during sex 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 ...
Octopuses Use Venom for Safe Sex, Biologists Reveal
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
IFLScience on MSN5d
Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating Them
Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...
Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
The small cephalopods use the venom to protect themselves and kill their ... Females are much larger than males, and after copulation, females often eat their partners. But males have evolved ...
Strange new scorpion species that sprays venom discovered
The venom from one of the previously known spitting scorpions, the southern African Parabuthus transvaalicus, is known to cause temporary blindness in humans if the sprays hit the eyes.
CNN3d
This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
The males have evolved to use a venom called tetrodotoxin (TTX) to immobilize females, which are normally around twice their size and commonly eat their sexual partners, study lead author Wen-Sung ...