The blue ring octopus is a small animal with a lethal secret. Though small, this poisonous creature carries a powerful toxin ...

Tiny creatures like the Irukandji jellyfish, Blue-Ringed Octopus, Brazilian Wandering Spider, Cone Snail, Deathstalker ...

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

What makes the blue-ringed octopus’ venom the most dangerous in the ocean? The blue-ringed octopus, a tiny sea animal, has an incredibly lethal bite. Its venom is 1,200 times more toxic than ...

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

The blue-ringed octopus was different ... The female was paralyzed by the venom. The octopus is immune to its own venom, so it does not die but is paralyzed for a short time.

presumably because males need to carry more venom than females for mating. The female blue-ringed octopus is about the size of a golf ball, and at the time of mating, the female is about 2 to 5 ...

The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is only a few centimeters long, yet it may be one of the most dangerous ...

and packs a potentially deadly punch when the octopus takes a bite. Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against enemies ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. At such a critical moment in US ...