Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

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 deed is ...

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

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

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.

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

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

A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male ...

Male blue-lined octopuses immobilize partners with venom before mating In the animal world, survival often involves strategies that are as ingenious as they are unexpected. Female blue-lined octopuses ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners, observations suggest 1. Blue-lined octopuses ( Hapalochlaena fasciata) have paralysing venom ...