The blue ring octopus is a small animal with a lethal secret. Though small, this poisonous creature carries a powerful toxin ...

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms ...

A blue-ringed octopus was spotted in the waters of Siquijor. According to Kuya Kim's report on "24 Oras," Wednesday, this ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. At such a critical moment in US ...

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

However, the short copulatory arms of the blue-ringed octopus mean it cannot mate at a distance from the female. In this study, a research team from the University of Queensland in Australia ...

Blue-lined octopuses belong to a family of blue-ringed octopuses, which are found throughout tropical waters of the western Pacific from the Sea of Japan to southern Australia. The research team ...

the team believes female blue-lined octopuses have likely evolved a higher tolerance to TTX, similar to their close relatives, the blue-ringed octopus. The PopSci team has tested hundreds of ...

Tiny creatures like the Irukandji jellyfish, Blue-Ringed Octopus, Brazilian Wandering Spider, Cone Snail, Deathstalker ...

The small blue ring octopus is extremely venomous, with toxin 1,200 times more powerful than cyanide. Its bite can swiftly paralyze, potentially leading to death within 20 minutes. There is no ...