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 a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...

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

In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.

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

Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...

The species in question is the blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata ... measuring just six inches across, but their venom packs a serious punch. Their salivary glands are full of symbiotic ...

Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against enemies, but also against members of their own species — cannibalistic females.

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.

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 ...