Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

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

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

It’s hard not to feel sorry for the octopus in The Boys. She has remained loyal to The Deep throughout everything, and that’s despite The Deep making promises he couldn’t and wouldn’t keep.

The Boy & The Octopus tells the story of a young boy who encounters an octopus while swimming at the beach, only to befriend the mollusk and share in a celebration of the holiday season.

The Clifford family shared a sad update about the family octopus Terrance, after the adopted sea creature for their nine-year ...

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A 13-year-old boy has found a rare Lego piece washed up on a beach in south-west England. Liutauras, from Cornwall, spotted the octopus after two years of searching for Lego pieces that famously ...

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 ...