Male octopus poisons its mate to avoid becoming post-sex snack
While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...
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Sex and survival: Male octopuses inject venom into females to avoid being eaten alive
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...
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Secrets of the Octopus on National Geographic: Documentary Explores Lives of the Mysterious Marine Creatures
One of them is the eight-limbed, soft-bodied mollusk, octopus. Interestingly, a new National Geographic documentary series titled Secrets of the Octopus delves into the enchanting world of these ...
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Dumbo octopus: The murky world of the deepest octopus species
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, ...
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Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find
The male octopus of this species precisely injects ... Several creatures, including flatworms, mollusks, amphibians, and fish such as the pufferfish use the deadly neurotoxin for killing prey ...
Mollusk family tree helps resolve long-standing evolutionary questions
An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...
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Mystery revealed: Octopuses’ sex chromosome is 480 million years old
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 ...