Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating 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 ...

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

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

"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and ...

Some species of pufferfish, for example, produce one of nature’s most potent venoms, tetrodotoxin, as a defence mechanism. Several blue-ringed octopus species use tetrodotoxin as a powerful ...

Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the sea deed ...

This group of friends wasn't expecting an encounter with one of the world's largest octopus species while enjoying a short ...

The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its deadly tetrodotoxin venom into the females to immobilise them during copulation, say researchers at the University of Queensland.