Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...
While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...
Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find - Octopus uses symbiotic ...
As his last act, the small but mighty paterfamilias gives an arm and a life to the cause of reproduction. This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold ...
Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...
When the octopus is scared or hungry ... which bears the risk of males being cannibalized during reproduction,” researchers said in a study published March 10 in the peer-reviewed journal ...