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 ...

Argonaut octopuses are rarely seen by humans, as they live in the open ocean away from shores. Females have a thin shell that carries their eggs, giving them the nickname 'paper nautilus.' Males have ...

When they're alarmed, blue-lined octopuses display iridescent blue rings on their arms to ward off approaching predators. Totti via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Animals have evolved many ...

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Male octopuses have been found to perform "no look" mating using only the sensory tips of their arms, without visual contact. The secret lies in their "right third arm." A joint research team from ...

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 ...

During mating, some male octopuses inject females with their potent venom to paralyse them – and avoid being eaten by their mates. Typically, animals use venom to kill prey or defend themselves from ...

When octopuses mate, the male keeps the female quite literally at arm’s length. For the act, the male has a special arm called a hectocotylus, which it uses to deposit a sack of sperm inside the ...

The love life of a male blue-lined octopus is tough. Like praying mantises and widow spiders, a female blue-lined octopus will often kill and eat the male after mating. It's just a circle of life for ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Humans are not the only species who practice 'safe sex', although this ...