Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...

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

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Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...

The males have evolved to use a venom called tetrodotoxin (TTX) to immobilize females, which are normally around twice their size and commonly eat their sexual partners, study lead author Wen-Sung ...

Their venom is called neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, or TTX, and is created by bacteria that live in a symbiotic relationship with the octopuses. The toxin is stored in their salivary glands ...

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The small cephalopods use the venom to protect themselves and kill their ... Females are much larger than males, and after copulation, females often eat their partners. But males have evolved ...

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Invasive Asian hornets eating 1,400 native insect species in Europe In the lab, video analysis of the scorpion revealed that it was indeed spraying drops of its venom. But researchers suspect the ...