The small blue ring octopus is extremely venomous, with toxin 1,200 times more powerful than cyanide. Its bite can swiftly ...

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

Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have completed a Phase I clinical trial for a new oral ...

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 ...

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

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uses symbiotic bacteria to sequester the tetrodotoxin venom in its salivary glands. Scientists have previously documented the octopus using its toxin-laden saliva to paralyse large prey before it ...