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 ...

A leading environmental voice in the North Carolina House has introduced a bill to outlaw octopus farming for human ...

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

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 ...

While the bite from a venomous blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) can result in a painful, potentially life-or-death emergency for humans, new research indicates it’s part of everyday ...

Don’t our legislators have greater concerns than whether octopuses are intelligent or edible? (“ Are octopuses smarter than ...