Among animals, few life cycles are as dramatic as that of the octopus. After a single reproductive event, many females enter a rapid decline that ends with them literally tearing at their own bodies, ...

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For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

The researchers primarily studied California two-spot octopuses. Jerry Kirkhart via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Octopus sex seems like a very dignified affair. A male octopus hands his sperm to ...

A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male blue-lined octopuses paralyze females prior to mating to avoid being eaten ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study. The males have evolved to use a venom called ...

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...