A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male blue-lined octopuses paralyze females prior to mating to avoid being eaten ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Octopus mating behaviors can be quite deadly. Many species are cannibalistic, making the entire prospect of mating dangerous, and female octopuses often die after laying one clutch of eggs. Their ...

It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean's best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

Octopuses are notoriously anti-social—if you put more than one in a tank, they’ll attack each other. And they certainly don’t form family ties—females are prone to eating males after mating, and they ...

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new experiments conducted by Pablo Villar and colleagues.