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 ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

So said a stream of octopus enthusiasts, who extolled the many astonishing traits of the beloved, eight-legged cephalopod to a committee of the Oregon Legislature earlier this month. Nearly 70 ...

The male octopus of this species precisely injects ... turning their bodies pale, and their pupils to become unresponsive to light – signs indicating they’re paralysed.