While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

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

This limits what the Dumbo octopus can eat, with them only consuming organisms up to 1-2 millimetres in size. This likely includes molluscs, small crustaceans such as copepods, amphipods and isopods, ...

Their findings, published Monday in the journal Current Biology, indicate that octopus has one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes, one that has likely been around since before the creatures ...