This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...
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Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners, observations suggest 1. Blue-lined octopuses ( Hapalochlaena fasciata) have paralysing venom ...
Octopuses Use Venom for Safe Sex, Biologists Reveal
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
OceanX reveals deep-sea mysteries off Africa's coastlines
As the pioneering "Around Africa Expedition" arrived in Cape Town, OceanX and OceanQuest unveiled a series of remarkable ...
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Scientists arrive in Cape Town after deep-sea discoveries on ‘Around Africa Expedition’
The OceanXplorer, docked in Cape Town, has mapped seafloor landscapes never before seen, conducted groundbreaking ...
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Orange deep-sea creature — with ‘dense’ eyelashes — discovered as new species
Photo from ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute via Dong, Seid, Li and Rouse (2025) Scientists aboard a research vessel off the coast of Costa Rica watched the feed from their submersible ...