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

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...

What is even more frightening is that there is no known antidote for its venom. The colorful blue rings of the octopus flash as a signal, but it may already be too late by then. This little ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. At such a critical moment in US ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study. The males have evolved to use a venom called ...

The blue ring octopus, though small, carries a lethal venom 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide, capable of paralyzing and killing a human within minutes. There is no antidote for its venom, and the ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. The male octopus of this ...

The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is only a few centimeters long, yet it may be one of the most dangerous ...

Their venom is called neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, or TTX, and is created by bacteria that live in a symbiotic relationship with the octopuses. The toxin is stored in their salivary glands ...