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

Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...

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

This octopus has never been captured ... "There's a whole range of different types of new species. There were anemones, urchins, mollusks, shrimp and squat lobster," Virmani said.

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

So much so that they may be Earth's next big species if ours ends up going the way of the dinosaurs. While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable" at the moment, it "wouldn’t be the ...

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

The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its ... deadly neurotoxin for killing prey and for self-defence. The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, found that ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study ... But while other octopus species have evolved ...