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, ...
Animals have evolved many different ways of protecting themselves, from prickly quills and razor-sharp teeth to clever ...
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.
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 sea deed ...
Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses — a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.
Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...
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 ...
Their venom is called neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, or TTX, and is created by bacteria that live in a symbiotic relationship with the octopuses. The toxin is stored in their salivary glands ...