The blue ring octopus, though small, carries a lethal venom 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide, capable of paralyzing and killing a human within minutes. There is no antidote for its venom, and the ...

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

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

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

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

Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find - Octopus uses symbiotic ...

Several blue-ringed octopus species use tetrodotoxin as a powerful weapon to quickly immobilise and kill their prey. Now, in a scientific first, Wen-Sung Chung from the University of Queensland ...

But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating arms that allow them to maintain a safe distance during copulation and avoid this fate, blue-lined octopuses have a comparatively short ...

Jaun-Paul Kalman was rushed to hospital on February 5 after a blue-ringed octopus bit him on the thumb at Balmoral. “I could feel myself not breathing … I was thinking, oh God, is this the end?” ...